Illustration for Epidemic Ghost Story: The Righteous Ghosts
We translated this during the COVID pandemic, as part of a series of epidemic-related folktales that we hope would inspire the reader to reflect on how working together to care for other people, including those who are not regarded as members of one's immediate community, was what helped communities survive past epidemics.
Btw, just because it's 2023 and the pandemic is supposedly over and the media has moved on, it doesn't mean anti-Asian hate in North America has gone out of style:
