Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women

Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Ziying You explores how Chinese and Chinese American women in the U.S. responded to the dual crises of COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism.

Weatherhead East Asian Institute (located at the School of International and Public Affairs)

Fall Talk Title: Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Chinese and Chinese American Women: Racisms, Feminisms, and Foodways – A Book Talk by Ziying YouSpeaker: Ziying You, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, University of GeorgiaModerator: Qin Gao, Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice, Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, Director of China Center for Social Policy, Columbia School of Social WorkZiying You explores how Chinese and Chinese American women in the U.S. responded to the dual crises of COVID-19 and anti-Asian racism through foodways, gendered resilience, and community building. Her book draws on ethnography, interviews, media analysis, and personal narratives to highlight women’s agency and identity formation during the pandemic.Speaker's Bio: Ziying You is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies at the University of Georgia. She is the author of Folk Literati, Contested Tradition, and Heritage in Contemporary China (IUP, 2020), co-editor of Chinese Folklore Studies Today (IUP, 2019), and co-editor of the journal special issues “Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia” (2020) for Asian Ethnology, and “Narratives of COVID-19 in China and the US” (2025) for Narrative Culture.This event is part of the 2025-2026 lecture series on "COVID-19 Governance and Impacts: China from Comparative Perspectives." The series will be part of the China COVID Project, a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary research initiative funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. It aims to spotlight new empirical and theoretical research that interrogates China’s post-COVID standing through social, economic, political, and gender-based lenses. It features scholars working on governance, public health, digital statecraft, labor, gender, and civil society responses in China and Asia. The series will foster public dialogue and contribute to documentation and analysis of the pandemic’s legacy.This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and cosponsored by the Columbia China Center for Social Policy and the Andrew J. Nathan Taiwan Lecture Series.For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street &amp; Broadway or 116th Street &amp; Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00pm on Sept. 25 for campus access.Names will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event.

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