{"id":8276,"date":"2021-04-08T00:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T16:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=8276"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:32:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T01:32:57","slug":"reflections-on-covid-19-english-website-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/8276\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReflections on COVID-19\u201d English Website Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The \u201cReflections on COVID-19\u201d Chinese website originally launched on January 26. Fulfilling the hopes of overseas readers, an English interface will be added on April 1. The language version can be selected from the website\u2019s homepage.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the entire globe. Paul R. Katz, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, gathered 19 Academia Sinica humanities and social science scholars on board a project funded by the Rapid-Response Grants on Covid-19 and the Social Sciences. Within a few months, the team composed popularly accessible science articles exploring the balance between disease prevention and human rights; analyzing the psychological impacts on frontline healthcare workers, home quarantiners, and the Taiwanese detained in Wuhan; and asking \u201cwhat they did right and what they did wrong\u201d in the 1918 Spanish flu, 19th century Chinese leprosy epidemic, and Manchurian plague, so as to reflect on what we can do now.<\/p>\n

In the words of Dr. Katz: \u201cThe COVID-19 crisis our world is experiencing requires more than scientific solutions; this disease also needs to be understood as a sociocultural phenomenon that requires healing efforts from us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

To broaden this project\u2019s impact, and to more rapidly respond to society\u2019s current needs, Chen Hsi-yuan, Director of the Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (ASCDC), led his colleagues at ASCDC to build the \u201cReflections on COVID-19\u201d Chinese and English websites. The website takes the 19 scholars\u2019 papers as its foundation, and adds on further readings and popular science lectures held during the pandemic. To increase interactivity, it also includes interactive games and collects reader-submitted stories about disease, opening public dialogue.<\/p>\n

In the past three months since the launch of the \u201cReflections on COVID-19\u201d Chinese website, it has received over 800 visitors and over 8000 pageviews. The English version\u2019s publication will attract an international range of interested readers, introducing everyone to Taiwan\u2019s experience in successfully stopping the epidemic\u2019s spread, and revealing Academia Sinica\u2019s timely response to the issues of Taiwanese society.<\/p>\n

The papers in \u201cReflections on COVID-19\u201d have been edited and abridged to suit the online format. The full papers are planned to be published in book format in June. The book will tackle the pandemic within the humanities and social science fields from three angles: \u201cHistorical Reflection,\u201d \u201cGlobal Impact,\u201d and \u201cLocal Response.\u201d It will guide readers through various research perspectives examining changes brought about by the pandemic, and attempt to learn from our experiences in the past in order to find a suitable way to respond to the present.<\/p>\n

\u201cReflections on COVID-19\u201d Chinese website\uff1ahttps:\/\/covid19.ascdc.tw<\/a>
\n\u201cReflections on COVID-19\u201d English website\uff1ahttps:\/\/covid19.ascdc.tw\/en<\/a><\/p>\n

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