Wuhan Diary

From one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-nineteen outbreak. On January twenty-five, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, her 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