Understanding Chinese Christian Far-Right Narrative in the COVID-19 Context: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

Abstract This article introduces the controversy over naming of COVID-19 as “Chinese Virus” and related hate crimes in US. It focuses on a group Chinese Christians North America who devote themselves to defending legitimising concept within various social media. research analyses content texts videos defines Christian far-right narrative reviews relationship between narrative, fundamentalism, nationalism. explores frame alignment process American nationalism evaluates bridging, amplification, extension, transformation dynamics narrative. discusses similarity religious different countries cultural structural factors that contributed with characteristics. The tends adopt friend/foe binary interpretation political issues, moralise goal nation-building, downplay democratic legal systems, put communitarian values secular state’s responsibility protect human rights. reflects nationalist sentiment exclude political, religious, others, which is fundamentalist theologically, opposing system politically, anti-secular humanism culturally, anti-progressive morally.