This week on Sinica, check out the first episode of the latest season of “Strangers in China,” with host Clay Baldo!
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://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
The work of Michel Foucault
