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This paper examines British Chinese communities' lived experiences of leisure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data that inform this paper are based on my ongoing ethnographic research with British Chinese students in two supplementary schools in the United Kingdom (UK) about their leisure and health-related experiences (supported by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship 2019–2020). The current findings are discussed in relation to my field notes, interviews with the students and their significant others from the schools, and social media sites that report on Chineseness and COVID-19. Results include the participants' change of lifestyles; fear and the pandemic; experiences of racism in relation to their leisure; and leisure and solidarity among Chinese communities. As a Hong Kong Chinese Australian researcher situated in the UK, I have an "insider and outsider" positionality which has an impact on data collection with the participants amidst the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Such self-surveillance is often presented as a necessary tradeoff between security and privacy; but this presentation may be a false dichotomy where both outcomes are possible (Lyon, [24]), although unlikely under surveillance capitalism (Zuboff, [38]). For Foucault, some of this rise in surveillance was coincidental with the decline of more obvious state-sanctioned physical punishments (i.e., torture, corporal punishment, execution), but was enacted to maintain a more subtle (but nonetheless effective) dominance of the state. Invoking Marx's notion of alienation (from the self, from others, from production), surveillance capitalism is characterized by asymmetrical personal data accumulation by companies, organizations, and governments that undertake "unexpected and illegible mechanisms of extraction and control that exile persons from their own behavior" (Zuboff, [37], p. 85). "The Fatal Coupling of Race, State, and Research on Disparities" is a conceptual paper from Sene-Harper and Outley ([33]) that examines if and how researchers contribute to the State surveillance apparatus, and the impact on race relations and disparities in the United States. [Extracted from the article]