Citations:Wuhan shake

English citations of Wuhan shake

foot to foot greeting

• 2020 March 2, Jackie Salo, “‘Wuhan Shake’ greeting goes viral amid coronavirus outbreak”, in New York Post:

  “People in China found another way to greet since they can’t shake hands,” wrote one user alongside a video of the “Wuhan Shake.”

• 2020 November 5, Stanley Carvalho, “Will handshakes become history?”, in Deccan Herald:

  Already the handshake is being replaced by different forms of greeting that we have been seeing - the elbow touch, fist bump, a tap on the back, a simple wave or a bow of the head, a namaste or even the ‘Wuhan Shake’.

• 2020 December 5, Jule Hubbard, “What might replace handshakes long-term?”, in Wilkes Journal-Patriot:

  Two people taping ^[sic] feet when meeting, dubbed the "Wuhan Shake", reportedly originated in China during the pandemic.

• 2021, Darren Lilleker, Ioana A. Coman, Miloš Gregor, Political Communication and COVID-19:

  The lack of importance was reflected in the sometimes-humorous reporting such as the attention given to the 'Wuhan shake,' an alternative way of shaking hands which involved elbow or foot taps.

• 2021 April 27, Y Gu, BS Onggo, MH Kunc, S Bayer, “Small Island Developing States (SIDS) COVID-19 post-pandemic tourism recovery: A system dynamics approach”, in Current Issues in Tourism:

  For example, to prevent from getting pandemic, new social norms came into being, people change their greeting behaviour from shaking hands to gain footing, a foot-to-foot greeting also known as Wuhan shake (Mishagina et al., 2020).