How Should Humanity Face All Organisms after the Covid-19 Pandemic: Rereading Wang Jinkang's <i>Grade Four Panic</i>

TOMARI Ko

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214408

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TOMARI Ko. How Should Humanity Face All Organisms after the Covid-19 Pandemic: Rereading Wang Jinkang's Grade Four Panic[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(4): 731-738. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214408

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TOMARI Ko. How Should Humanity Face All Organisms after the Covid-19 Pandemic: Rereading Wang Jinkang's Grade Four Panic[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2021, 4(4): 731-738. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214408

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How Should Humanity Face All Organisms after the Covid-19 Pandemic: Rereading Wang Jinkang's Grade Four Panic

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20214408

TOMARI Ko^,

National Institute of Technology, Hakodate College

Received Date: 2021-02-08
Accepted Date: 2021-09-18

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Today, the entire world continues to fight the spread of COVID-19.This is a scientific battle between the virus and human intelligence, and touches all aspects of human civilization, including politics and economics. Infectious diseases have often been depicted in literature, through stories about how humanity fights against viruses and how people act toward each other(including foolish behavior) during a pandemic. However, perhaps only one book treats viruses as living organisms on the same level as humans and philosophically questions the relationship between them:Wang Jinkang's science fiction novel Grade Four Panic.During this COVID-19 pandemic, one question raised in the book deserves some consideration:"Does humanity have the right to arbitrarily decide which organisms are hostile to humanity and deprive them of their right to live in nature?"
- COVID-19,
- pandemic literature,
- Wang Jinkang, Grade Four Panic,
- biodiversity

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