Seesaw Precarity: Journaling Anxious Hope on a Chinese University Campus During Covid-19.

ABSTRACT: In this article, we examine the Covid-19 experiences of a group of Chinese university students studying in the city of Guangzhou. We draw on journal entries that Chinese students submitted to the Pandemic Journaling Project between March and May 2022, along with follow-up responses in July and December 2022, to argue that these students spent most of their undergraduate years living in a state of "seesaw precarity." We define seesaw precarity as a protracted period during which many Chinese were unable to predict from one day to the next whether they would be free to engage in the quotidian activities of everyday life. We trace student reactions and adaptations as they struggled to attend class, buy food, and see friends and family in the midst of unpredictable swings between openness and

SUBMITTER: Mason KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11769575 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature