MaoHui Deng

MaoHui Deng received his PhD in Drama from the University of Manchester. His thesis examines the ways in which films about dementia can help further and/or complicate our understanding of time and performance in cinema, gerontology, and the wider society. His research interests include time and temporality; the depiction of age on screen; illness and disability; science and medicine in cultural studies; and Southeast Asian cinemas. He has published in the journal Asian Cinema and has written film annotations for Senses of Cinema.

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Pandemic Disco

A virus, which is a notebook and some juicy apples, dances. A virus, which is a giant Siamese palace, dances. A virus, which is a helicopter landing, dances.

Pandemic Disco : Gloss

The pandemic has been racialised, oft-referred to as the “Wuhan virus” and the “Chinese virus”, and anyone who passes as Chinese (or, really, of East or Southeast Asian descent) in the western world has been Othered and, in some cases, physically assaulted, violently denying them of their sense of self.