This week on Sinica, we proudly present Episode 1 of the newest season of Strangers in China: Lockdown Part 1: A day in the life.
The 2022 Shanghai lockdown came to Clay’s neighborhood early and caught him off-guard. Struggling with his mental health, Clay documents how lockdown works on a granular level giving listeners an audio tour of his neighborhood as it plunges into the uncertainty of all the minutiae of day-to-day life living under the control of the apparatuses that shut down an entire city for several months. The boredom, the stress, the terror. He documents clashes with local bureaucracy and the ingenuity of the people of Shanghai who had to live through these dark and strange times. Clay ventures out into a city as it’s about to enter the full city lockdown and gives listeners a sense of what a city looks like before it's irrevocably changed.
Music credits:
Csus
https://soundcloud.com/csus
Moss Heim-
https://soundcloud.com/mossheim-experimental/cutup-test-cycle-7000
Trey
https://soundcloud.com/tristan-phipps-1/trance
Jaies
https://soundcloud.com/jaiess
Bary
https://soundcloud.com/bary_is_cool
Ginger pitcher
https://soundcloud.com/gingerpitcherfredfroh
TDP-Experimental
https://soundcloud.com/user-99078702
Xxiuk
https://soundcloud.com/xxiuk
Lakey Inspired
https://soundcloud.com/lakeyinspired
TazLazuli
https://soundcloud.com/tazlazuli
Terri skills
https://soundcloud.com/beatz-by-terri-skillz
Lofee
https://soundcloud.com/lofeetunes
Dr3am____
https://soundcloud.com/dr3am-official
Purrple Cat
https://soundcloud.com/purrplecat
Ye Old Experimental Junk
https://soundcloud.com/ye-old-experimental-junk
Le gang
https://soundcloud.com/thisislegang
Obani
https://soundcloud.com/obani
Jozwyn
https://soundcloud.com/jozwyn
MCV
https://soundcloud.com/just-chillin-654995634
Works consulted
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-60893070
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-12/shanghai-residents-remain-largely-under-lockdown-despite-easing
https://isdp.eu/publication/xi-jinping-and-the-administrative-hierarchy-and-subdivisions-in-china/
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/elizabethperry/files/managed_campaigns_-_proofs.pdf
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1178528.shtml
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1184356.shtml
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/694299
https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1209&context=psilr
https://www.smh.com.au/world/pocket-of-poverty-the-new-shanghai-has-left-behind-20121109-293dl.html
https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3187061/shanghais-old-west-gate-neighbourhood-emptied-demolition-and-redevelopment
https://academic.oup.com/columbia-scholarship-online/book/20259/chapter-abstract/179324873?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false
The work of Michel Foucault
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