Political Depression and the Afterlives of Neurasthenia (opens in new tab)

‘Political depression’ (政治性抑郁), first introduced into Chinese online discourse in the summer of 2019, is a term that gained wide circulation during the Covid-19 pandemic. At first, it was associated with anger and despair at the authorities’ mishandling of the Wuhan outbreak and its rapid slide out of control. Later in the prolonged crisis, it […]