The residents of Wuhan bitterly remember the more than two-month lockdown they were subjected to five years ago, during the early stages of the COVID pandemic, which China confronted with a strict ...
On Jan. 23, 2020, the Chinese government issued a travel ban for all residents of Wuhan, the epicenter of a novel coronavirus outbreak that would come to cause a pandemic.
The residents of Wuhan bitterly remember the more than two-month lockdown they were subjected to five years ago, during the ...
The lockdown posts were later translated by UCLA Professor Michael Berry and published overseas as a book, Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City. Chinese writer Fang Fang speaks with media ...
Although restrictions were officially lifted in 2022 after widespread protests, the country is still struggling to recover.
The Chinese city registered the first cases of the infection and implemented the first lockdown of the population to curb contagion ...
The book won a literary award in China for historical realism; the next year the authorities blacklisted it. Fang Fang's notes posted online during the Covid-19 lockdown in Wuhan, China ...