The Covid-19 Pandemic and Risks in East Asia: Media, Social Reactions, and Theories

Using ＂risk＂ as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This book looks at how governments, societies, and individuals have perceived, experienced, dealt with and interpreted the pandemic, and the transformations it has brought across East Asia.

Nobuto Yamamoto is Professor at the Department of Politics, Keio University, Japan. His areas of research include politics and history of Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia. He is the author of Censorship in Colonial Indonesia, 1901-1942 (2019) and editor of many books in Japanese.