@article{THESIS,
      recid = {14230},
      author = {Ping, Yifan},
      title = {AFFECTIVE LOGISTICS AND LOGISTICAL AFFECT: TRANSNATIONAL  CIRCULATION OF CHINESE MEDICINE LIANHUAQINGWEN (LHQW)},
      publisher = {University of Chicago},
      school = {M.A.},
      address = {2024-06},
      number = {THESIS},
      abstract = {Amidst a global pandemic that disrupted supply chains and  heightened geopolitical tensions between China and the US,  a particular flow of Chinese government-approved  medicine—Lianhua Qingwen (LHQW)—persisted between Chinese  parents and their migrant children in the US. Despite  controversies and formidable challenges in sourcing,  shipping, and distributing this medicine, transnational  Chinese families undertook creative and labor-intensive  logistical projects to ensure its timely delivery. Drawing  from ethnographic interviews with young Chinese migrants in  the US, as well as material and audiovisual artifacts of  their pandemic experiences, the study shows how the  transnational logistics of LHQW constituted a “system of  systems” involving digital technologies, informal  economies, and translocal sociality. Situated in a  precarious pandemic milieu, LHQW logistics is both  vulnerable to intense affect and contingent on phatic  labor. By tracing the difficult trajectories of LHQW, this  study highlights the material and affective dimensions of  transnational circulation, illustrating how logistics  became a lens for understanding kinship, healing, and  resilience during times of crisis.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/14230},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.6082/uchicago.14230},
}