Based on ethnographic research carried out during the 2022 Covid-19 surge in southern
China, this paper examines the roll-out of a contact-tracing tool called the Time-Space …

China's unprecedented measures to mobilize its diverse surveillance apparatus played a
key part in the country's successful containment of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic …

Current debates over digital contact tracing mainly focus on the tools and experiences in the
West. China's health code, while often seen as one of the earliest and most widely adopted …

Since 2020, many countries worldwide have deployed digital contact tracing programs that
rely on a range of digital sensors in the city to locate and map the routes of viral spread …

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unfold, the approach of the Chinese government
remains under the spotlight, obscuring the complex landscape of responses to the outbreak …

This essay adopts three accounts (sociological, neoliberal, and cybernetic) of “the social” to
get a clearer picture of why there is a barrier faced by the government when implementing …

In an era of digitalization, governments often turn to digital solutions for pressing policy
issues, and the use of digital contact tracing and quarantine enforcement for COVID-19 is no …

As states increasingly use algorithms to improve the legibility of society, particularly during
the COVID-19 pandemic, it is common for concerns about the expanding power of the …

Often coined as the “zero-COVID policy,” China's unique approach to pandemic
management entails strategies such as aggressive mass testing, strict quarantine protocols …

One of the more noteworthy features of this multi-pronged effort is the “quick response health
code”(健康码). Available on Chinese citizens' smartphones through the popular apps Alipay …