Tag: COVID-19

• 3 Things that Keep me Here in China

  

  As the city of Chengdu skitters on the edge of another lockdown (the first and last one was a year and a half ago, ending in April, 2020), I go to bed and wake up thinking about fear. Sometimes I feel fear, but more often I’m thinking about fear. Thinking of the guard downstairs who pointed to my bare lips and then to his mask. Recalling the woman standing by the gate who scornfully reiterated his request. I saw only her eyes, and her eyes were full of fear. Fear of COVID-19, fear of getting sick, and fear of being shut in one’s apartment in a Chinese lockdown. 

  Dr. Sophia Kidd

  November 8, 2021

  COVID-19, Cultural Studies, New Silk Roads, People-to-people, Sophia Kidd, Teaching in China

  Belt and Road Initiative, Chengdu, China, Chinese Culture, Chinese Studies, COVID-19, Culture Paves the New Silk Road, International-Style, Lockdown, New Silk Raods, One Belt One Road, Sichuan

• Black dot focus in Chinese Universities

  

  One of the best moves I ever made in the early ’90’s was studying kenpo kickboxing at a studio in midtown, Ventura. I did it because I had been feeling increasingly nervous on the streets of this sleepy tourist town which, when the LA-sters weren’t up for the weekend during the bonny months of spring […]

  Dr. Sophia Kidd

  September 5, 2020

  Teaching in China

  American Culture, Black Dot Focus, Chengdu, China, Chinese Culture, Chinese Faculty Models, Chinese Institutions, Comparative Cultural Studies, COVID-19, Institutional Hierachies, International-Style, Kenpo, Online Teaching, Remote Working, Rhizomic Model of Communities, Sichuan, Teaching in China, United States of America, White Dot Focus