Tag: microhistory

  • Mentalités and Body Politics: Aspects of Our Pandemic Global Microhistory

    Mentalités and Body Politics: Aspects of Our Pandemic Global Microhistory

    By Weiao Xing (@WeiaoX) In early January 2020, a newsletter disclosed an unknown pneumonia spreading through Wuhan, China.[i] This understated report failed to lade me with extreme anxiety on an otherwise ordinary day in Cambridge. Many of my peers did not anticipate any interruption to our annual schedule of international trips, but lockdowns and travel…