n Locked-Down Shanghai, Students Adapt to a Surreal New Normal

For Xixi, life now revolves around the color-coded QR codes installed on her smartphone. People across China have grown used to showing a green “health code” to enter public buildings like malls and office buildings during the pandemic. But since the Shanghai lockdown began, some schools have taken the technology much further. Xixi, a sociology student at Shanghai University, now has to show a