Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women

Ziying You is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia. She is author of Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China: Incense Is Kept Burning (IUP, 2020) and editor (with Lijun Zhang) of Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice (IUP, 2019).

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Global Asian Folklore Studies, Feminisms, and Anti-Asian Racisms 2. Building New Homes: Chinese Immigrant Mothers, Communities of Support, and Political Activisms During the Pandemic 3. To Return or To Stay: Chinese Women International Students and Their Transnational Experiences During the Pandemic 4. Coming Out of "the Fog": Chinese Adoptees, Anti-Racist Solidarities, and Remaking Chinese/Asian American Identities 5. "Going Home": Chinese Lay Buddhist Women, Diverse Agencies, and Hybrid Communities 6. Fluid Foodways, Racisms, and Everyday Lives 7. Conclusion Appendix: List of Contributors Bibliography Index

"Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women is an important study that combines the best of belief studies with contemporary approaches to understanding trauma, public health, and quotidian creativity and sustenance. Dealing with anti-Asian sentiments and violence fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic, Ziying You brings women and their families into focus to flesh out moments where the practice of folklore both harms and heals, eventually revealing the complexities of race, ethnicity, and gender in times of crisis."-Solimar Otero, author of Archives of Conjure and co-editor of Theorizing Folklore from the Margins "A pioneering, decolonial, intersectional feminist, ethnographic study of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American (CCA) women in the US, Professor Ziying You's monograph contributes substantially to the fields of American Studies, Asian American Studies, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and Critical Folklore Studies. Especially compelling from my own Black feminist vantage point is her brilliant analysis of the anti-Asian racisms that were catalyzed by the pandemic and also reminiscent of earlier historical moments nationally and globally."-Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Founding Director, Women's Research & Resource Center at Spelman College