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Talking, Linking, Clicking: The Politics of AIDS and SARS in Urban China

Talking, Linking, Clicking: The Politics of AIDS and SARS in Urban China positions 15:1 Spring 2007 though, these post-Mao citizens are not silent: they talk, link, and click. By talking on radio and television, linking with others through real and virtual networking, and clicking the keyboard of the mobile phone and/or computer, these citizens, especially those from the urban middle classes, are able to appropriate and expand the circulatory matrix of narrative, subjectivity, and citizenship. New media have become the venues and means for postMao citizens to re-form subjectivities and exercise citizenship, which in turn exposes the politics of AIDS and SARS in urban China. AIDS and SARS, as potential global epidemics that have affected millions of lives in China alone, are sites of signification and knowledge in contemporary biopolitics. Since they represent social and cultural crises, as well as biomedical ones, both syndromes have provided opportunities for the state and society to reconstitute and resituate their subjective positions in relation to each other. AIDS and SARS have also opened up space to reexamine the information revolution that is changing China’s popular media topology. Faced with a morality-loaded virus (AIDS) and a highly contagious virus (SARS), people have readjusted their strategies of expression and interaction through the use of new http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

Talking, Linking, Clicking: The Politics of AIDS and SARS in Urban China

Yu, Haiqing
positions asia critique , Volume 15 (1) – Mar 1, 2007
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2007 by Duke University Press
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1067-9847
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10.1215/10679847-2006-023
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positions 15:1 Spring 2007 though, these post-Mao citizens are not silent: they talk, link, and click. By talking on radio and television, linking with others through real and virtual networking, and clicking the keyboard of the mobile phone and/or computer, these citizens, especially those from the urban middle classes, are able to appropriate and expand the circulatory matrix of narrative, subjectivity, and citizenship. New media have become the venues and means for postMao citizens to re-form subjectivities and exercise citizenship, which in turn exposes the politics of AIDS and SARS in urban China. AIDS and SARS, as potential global epidemics that have affected millions of lives in China alone, are sites of signification and knowledge in contemporary biopolitics. Since they represent social and cultural crises, as well as biomedical ones, both syndromes have provided opportunities for the state and society to reconstitute and resituate their subjective positions in relation to each other. AIDS and SARS have also opened up space to reexamine the information revolution that is changing China’s popular media topology. Faced with a morality-loaded virus (AIDS) and a highly contagious virus (SARS), people have readjusted their strategies of expression and interaction through the use of new

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Published: Mar 1, 2007

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