This personal essay reflects on how the pandemic has profoundly affected daily life, personal health, and the social body. A renewed awareness of embodied time evokes memories and images of intersecting life worlds, and of the people, especially women, who nourished the author and inspired a new conception of vernacular modernism for film and media studies.
Keywords:
cinema,
female kinship,
education,
healing,
illness,
memory,
migration,
modern China,
photography,
Shanghai
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2021
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