Springer COVID-19 Pandemic, Crisis Responses and the Changing World: Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences

This book comprehensively analyzes COVID-19 and its impact as well as the response from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences. This book covers topics ranging from geopolitical relations to regional integration, public health governance and even the evolution of professional practices in the time of COVID-19. It constitutes a precious and timely interdisciplinary reference for anyone aspiring not only to grasp the origins and dynamics of the present challenge, but also to identify future opportunities for further growth and holistic progress for humanity. From the Back Cover This book comprehensively analyzes COVID-19 and its impact as well as the response from the perspectives of humanities and social sciences. This book covers topics ranging from geopolitical relations to regional integration, public health governance and even the evolution of professional practices in the time of COVID-19. It constitutes a precious and timely interdisciplinary reference for anyone aspiring not only to grasp the origins and dynamics of the present challenge, but also to identify future opportunities for further growth and holistic progress for humanity. About the Author Simon Zhao Xiaobin is a Professor and Associate Dean of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at the BNU-HKBU United International College (UIC). Previously, he worked at Hong Kong University as a founding Director of the International Center for China Development Studies. He specialises in economic geography, urban, regional and global studies and regularly carries out research in the broad areas of urban regional studies, geopolitics and economic development, spatial and global transformation, geography of international trade and finance, and development of international financial centers (IFCs). He is an editorial board member of four international journals and so far published more than 150 papers in international refereed journals and ISI (SSCI) Citation Journals, book chapters and consultative reports. Simon Zhao was a Member of the Central Policy Unit, HKSAR Government (Pan-PRD Panel). He chaired and co-lead various substantial academic research projects and provided consultancy services to China’s national, provincial and local governments, as well as private sector.  Johnston Wong, Professor in Social Work and Social Administration, started his career as a youth worker in Hong Kong. His early academic interests focused on youth and family work, branching out to psychological stress and unemployment. Recently his research covered areas of social work for older people, social indicators studies, healthy villages and cities, social laws in China, disaster social work and healthcare social work.  He received the International Crisis Intervention Leadership Award from ICISF and the Presidential Award from ACPA, other being recognized as one of the Outstanding Young Person back in 1990 by TOYPA.  Charles Lowe, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Learning, Teaching, and Student Experience for the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor in English Language and Literature Studies, received his PhD in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.  His criticism appears in Reading Contemporary China Against the Grain: Imagining Communities published by Routledge and has been included in the collection, China and the Humanities: At the Crossroads of the Human and the Humane, published by New Directions in the Humanities, His fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.  He has been thrice selected as a Resident Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has been selected as a Resident Fellow at the Norman Mailer’s Writers’ Colony.  His fiction has been anthologized in a collection on literature on the electronic media.  Edoardo Monaco, Associate Professor, directs the Globalisation and Development (GAD) as well as the Government a