A Genealogical Study of Facemasks in China:From Hygienic Modernity to Care  

作　　者：Buyun Gong 

机构地区：[1]Institute for Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie,Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg,Freiburg Im Breisgau,Germany

出　　处：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》2022年第2期189-206,共18页复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）

摘　　要：Despite the omnipresence of facemasks in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,recent studies on their sociopolitical aspects remain insufficient.This article conducts a genealogical study that investigates the emergence of two differing masking strategies in two epidemic events in Chinese history.First,during the Manchurian plague 1910/11,it shows how the germ theory and historical anecdotes made anti-plague masks thinkable and practicable as a solution not only for airborne contagion but also for the biopolitical problem of‘unhygienic’population.In the second part,the analytical focus is shifted to the emergence of collective mask-wearing practices during SARS 2002/03 from the vantage point of subjectification.Facemasks then became a symbol of care in the neoliberal regime of responsibilization.This article concludes by arguing for a rethinking of facemasks as actants who actively participate in the constitution of the world we share.

关 键 词：Facemask BIOPOLITICS CARE SUBJECTIFICATION SARS Manchurian plague 

分 类 号：U46[机械工程—车辆工程]