Kristy Bryant

Pandemic Nationalism as Digital Agitprop: Anti-Western Sentiment and the Rhetoric of Superiority on Weibo During COVID-19

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese social media became the main arena for nationalist sentiment and ideological contestation, revealing perceptions of the West and emergent forms of participatory digital politics. The neologism ‘white left’ ( baizuo 白左 ), was used by netizens to critique liberal values, s...