Abstract: This essay examines how Chinese diasporic literature constructs a metanarrative of crisis by linking pandemic fiction with Tiananmen literature, focusing on Qiu Xiaolong's Love and Murder in the Time of COVID . It argues that both bodies of writing respond to epistemic voids and state-sanctioned forgetting by producing counter-histories that resist erasure. Tracing their discursive continuity, the essay showcases how crisis-driven narratives record trauma and imagine alternative truths, while also operating within ideological constraints that may reinforce Cold War binaries and Orientalist framings of Chinese suffering.
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