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Anxiety, “concerned consciousness” and their manifestation in the COVID-19 pandemic in China
ID Sernelj, Tea (Author)

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Abstract
The article examines the specifics of the Chinese containment measures of the COVID-19 pandemic and their social consequences at the beginning of 2021. The author analyses em-pirical psychological research results on distress and anxiety of people in times of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, and explores to what degree the individual feelings of anxiety in contemporary China are conditioned by the traditionally prevailing absence of faith in higher transcendent forces on the one hand, and social isolation on the other. It proceeds from Xu Fuguan’s interpretation of the origins of a traditional Chinese concept of “concerned consciousness” (youhuan yishi憂患意識). The author shows that this concept can be compared to the feeling of anxiety, but highlights important differences which separate it from the anxiety as developed and understood in the framework of modern Western philosophy. The paper aims to provide some preliminary answers to the questions of whether and in what way such a traditional feeling of anxiety in the sense of a “concerned consciousness” manifested itself in the period of social isolation that was implemented as a part of the government measures for the COVID-19 pandemic in China. These questions are being investigated through an analysis of philosophical studies on concerned conscious-ness on the on hand, and a contemporary case study on the other. The results show that the specifically Chinese kind of anxiety, which is rooted in concerned consciousness, is tightly linked to the relational nature of Chinese ethics and the corresponding understanding of individual identity. In addition, it is connected with the traditional understanding of human destiny, which is not fatalistic or determinist, but rather based on autonomous decisions based on the social responsibilities of a free human self.

Language:English
Keywords:Confucianism, Chinese ethics, pandemics, COVID-19, youhuan yishi, Xu Fuguan, anxiety
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:FF - Faculty of Arts
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Place of publishing:Ljubljana
Year:2022
Number of pages:Str. 155-182
Numbering:Vol. 10 (26), iss. 1
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-134652 This link opens in a new window
UDC:17(510):364.624.6
ISSN on article:2232-5131
DOI:10.4312/as.2022.10.1.155-182 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:94569987 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:24.01.2022
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Title:Asian studies
Publisher:Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
ISSN:2232-5131
COBISS.SI-ID:265206272 This link opens in a new window

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License:CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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Licensing start date:19.01.2022

Secondary language

Language:Slovenian
Title:Tesnoba, »zaskrbljena zavest« ter njune manifestacije v pandemiji COVID-19 na Kitajskem
Keywords:konfucijanstvo, kitajska etika, pandemija, COVID-19, tesnoba, youhuan yishi, Xu Fuguan

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