
Wuhan Diary
Dispatches from a Quarantined City
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Emily Woo Zeller
From one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak.
On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang’s nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced isolation, the role of the internet as both community lifeline and source of misinformation, and most tragically, the lives of neighbors and friends taken by the deadly virus.
A fascinating eyewitness account of events as they unfold, Wuhan Diary captures the challenges of daily life and the changing moods and emotions of being quarantined without reliable information. Fang Fang finds solace in small domestic comforts and is inspired by the courage of friends, health professionals and volunteers, as well as the resilience and perseverance of Wuhan’s nine million residents. But, by claiming the writer´s duty to record she also speaks out against social injustice, abuse of power, and other problems which impeded the response to the epidemic and gets herself embroiled in online controversies because of it.
As Fang Fang documents the beginning of the global health crisis in real time, we are able to identify patterns and mistakes that many of the countries dealing with the novel coronavirus have later repeated. She reminds us that, in the face of the new virus, the plight of the citizens of Wuhan is also that of citizens everywhere. As Fang Fang writes: “The virus is the common enemy of humankind; that is a lesson for all humanity. The only way we can conquer this virus and free ourselves from its grip is for all members of humankind to work together.”
Blending the intimate and the epic, the profound and the quotidian, Wuhan Diary is a remarkable record of an extraordinary time.
Translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry
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Touches the soul of human nature
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Very enlightening.
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In-depth look at life under quarantine
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An Interesting Account...
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What I do find particularly interesting is that in the 14 hrs of text, she never once mentions the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Since she was former academic, and by her own admission, came from a family of scientific academics, I find it very interesting that she discussed the Wuhan University and other academic circles in Wuhan, but never the Virology Institute and the research they were conducting there. She had to have known it was there in the city given her background and she never uttered the name once in all of her diary entries. This makes me even more convinced that it is the likely source of the initial outbreak. It is the 800lb gorilla standing in the room that she never mentioned when discussing the seafood market and the unknown source. Very interesting..... Definitely worth a listen fthough for the cultural insight and Ms Fang seems like wonderful person.
Worth the listen for Perspective.
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Propaganda -I skimmed it
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