“This is China’s Wailing Wall”: Chronotopes and the configuration of Li Wenliang on Weibo
“This is China’s Wailing Wall”: Chronotopes and the configuration of Li Wenliang on Weibo
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——这就是中国的哭墙——：计时表和李文亮在微博上的配置
DOI：
10.1075/lcs.22002.pri
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2022
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Hu, Tony
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作者：
Pritzker, Sonya E.;Hu, Tony
武汉市中心医院眼科医生李文亮因向群友发送包含疑似肺炎病例诊断报告的微信，被指散布谣言。当他后来死于 COVID-19 时，他的微博页面很快就被称为“中国的哭墙”，数十万网友在一条延续至今的巨型帖子中分享了对他最后帖子的回复。本文选取了李去世后一年发布到他的微博上的消息档案中的帖子，研究了参与者如何使用时空位（Bhaktin 1981）将李与各种文化上突出的“人物形象”（；）联系起来，包括“道德英雄”、“亲属人物”和/或“神灵”。我们的分析进一步表明，作为对悲伤和不确定性的回应，这种定位如何“让”作者远离霸权国家的时势，使人们与中国政府处于相互关心的共生关系中。因此，我们的分析提供了对集体危机有能力（但不一定）激发复杂的话语和关系过程的洞察，通过这个过程，对话者在应对民族和/或“文化”体验的转变时表现出高度的亲密感。
Dr. Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, was accused of spreading rumors when he sent a WeChat message containing the diagnostic report of a suspicious pneumonia case to a group of friends. When he later died from COVID-19, his Weibo page quickly become known as “China’s Wailing Wall,” where hundreds of thousands of netizen shared replies to his final post in a mega-thread that continues into the present. Drawing upon a selection of posts from an archive of messages posted to Li’s Weibo in the year following his death, this article examines how participants used chronotopes (Bhaktin 1981) to situate Li vis-à-vis various culturally salient “figures of personhood” (; ), including “moral hero,” “kin figure,” and/or “deity.” Our analysis further suggests how such positioning, as a response to grief and uncertainty, “moved” authors into a position of distance from hegemonic national chronotopes situating people in a symbiotic relationship of mutual care with the Chinese state. Our analysis thus offers insight into the ways in which collective crises have the capacity to (but do not necessarily) motivate a complex discursive and relational process through which interlocutors enactscalar intimacyas they grapple with shifts in their felt experience of nationhood and/or “culture.”