Jeff Kingston, Editor of this special issue, assembled a team of contributors from all over the region and is grateful for their working on a tight deadline to assess the pandemic in Asia as of July 2020. In editing this volume he received valuable editorial assistance from Laney Bahan, guidance from Mark Selden and production processing assistance from Joelle Tapas, Hannah LaTourette and Yayoi Koizumi who shepherded the manuscripts from submission to publication with patience and acuity.
Introduction
1. Jeff Kingston – Introduction
2. Michael Bartos – Modern Pandemics
East Asia and the Pacific
3. Michael Bartos – Australia and the Rhythm of the Covid-19 Epidemic
4. David Moser – A Fearful Asymmetry: Covid-19 and America’s Information Deficit with China
5. Anonymous – Social Media and China’s Coronavirus Outbreak
6. Simon Cartledge – So What? Hong Kong’s Covid-19 Success Won’t be Why It Remembers 2020
7. Brian Hioe – “Asia’s Orphan” During the COVID-19 Pandemic
8. Ian Rowen – Crafting the Taiwan Model for COVID-19: An Exceptional State in Pandemic Territory
9. S. Nathan Park – Fostering Trust in Government During a Pandemic: The Case of South Korea
10. Azby Brown – Information as the Key: Evaluating Japan’s Response to COVID-19
11. Togo Kazuhiko – The First Phase of Japan’s Response to COVID-19
Reflections
12. Kyle Cleveland – Contemplating COVID in Japan
13. Horiguchi Sachiko – Towards a Renewed Sense of Sociality in the Pandemic Age
14. Wei Chuan Chen – Becoming a Mom in Pandemic Tokyo
Marginalized
15. Michiel Baas – Labour Migrants as an (Un)Controllable Virus in India and Singapore
16. Naoko Wake – Lack of Empathy Takes the United States Deeper into the Second Cold War
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