Social Transformations in Chinese Societies: Volume 17 Issue 2

Casino capitalism in the era of COVID-19: examining Macau’s pandemic response

Loretta Lou

This purpose of this paper is to explain Macau’s successful pandemic response through an analysis of its social, political and economic landscapes. In particular, it focusses on…

Hong Kong’s response to COVID-19: a glance to the control measures and their enforcement

Ka Ki Lawrence Ho, Ying-Tung Chan

This study aims to examine Hong Kong’s responses to COVID-19, arguing that Hong Kong’s relatively low infection rate is due to self-discipline of citizens together with the…

Family engagement in the home-based learning mode: an enlarging divide in education

Shuo Liu

This paper aims to provide an overview of the development periods of home-based learning in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic, then discusses the differences in how the more…

Conceptualizing China’s spatial lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic: a neo-liberal society or a pre-liberal one?

Pengfei Li

The draconian measures to lock down communities and cities in China during the COVID-19 pandemic are unprecedented in human history. First the mega-city of Wuhan, then the…

Taiwan makes itself a COVID-19 safe zone without draconian measures: lessons and caveats

Chih-Wei Hsieh, Mao Wang

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has helped Taiwan gain widespread recognition and commendation. Taiwan's low infection rate is praiseworthy not merely because it…

From helmets to face masks: how collective emotions sustain diaspora mobilization from homeland uprising to global pandemic among the Hong Kongers

Kennedy Chi-Pan Wong

Diasporic mobilization studies often incorporate collective emotions into the discussion of movement strategies, less we knew about how emotion becomes the language by which they…