{"product_id":"wuhan-diary-dispatches-from-a-quarantined-city-9780063052642","title":"Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating eyewitness account of events as they unfold, \u003cem\u003eWuhan Diary\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending the intimate and the epic, the profound and the quotidian, \u003cem\u003eWuhan Diary\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable record of an extraordinary time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from the Chinese by Michael Berry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFang, Fang:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eOne of contemporary China's most celebrated writers, Fang Fang was born into an intellectual family in Nanjing in 1955, and spent most of her childhood in Wuhan, where she witnessed many of the political movements of Mao's China, from the Great Leap Forward to the Cultural Revolution. She graduated from Wuhan University with a degree in Chinese literature, and her novels, novellas, short stories, and essays have appeared in nearly 100 different editions. She has been the recipient of numerous honors, including the Lu Xun Literary Prize, and the Chinese Literature and Communications Prize for Outstanding Writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerry, Michael:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eMichael Berry is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA. He is the author of several books on Chinese film and culture, including \u003cem\u003eSpeaking in Images\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA History of Pain.\u003c\/em\u003e He has served as a film consultant and a juror for numerous film festivals, including the Golden Horse (Taiwan) and the Fresh Wave (Hong Kong). He is also the translator of several novels, including T\u003cem\u003eo Live, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRemains of Life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harpervia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50481993154834,"sku":"9780063052642","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_517aebf3-0332-4d25-b388-95b9a41a870a.jpg?v=1730337155","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wuhan-diary-dispatches-from-a-quarantined-city-9780063052642","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}