Locked down: Keeping busy in difficult times
In February 2020, as part of the effort to control the spread of the COVID-19 virus, China’s schools asked adolescents to stay home. There was no going to school, no social events, nothing. The start of the spring semester was postponed. For Xiaoyu, who was in Grade 11 at the time of the shutdown, postponing school did not sound all bad – at first…