“For a professional writer like myself, this is the greatest punishment they could hand out.”
A medical worker takes a swab sample from a resident for a nucleic acid test on Dec. 10 in Wuhan, China.Fang’s diary provided first-hand glimpses into Wuhan’s lockdowns during the early days of the pandemic.In the interview, conducted by email, Fang called the government’s treatment of her a form of “cold violence.”
“All of these repercussions I am facing are simply because I recorded my experiences during the lockdown in Wuhan and published a book entitled ‘Wuhan Diary,'” she said. “I did not break a single law or violate a single rule. The whole thing is extremely bizarre and utterly unimaginable.”forced to reverse of its “zero-COVID” policiesFang said she began writing her daily chronicles at the suggestion of an editor at a Chinese literary journal.
Fang received numerous death threats, which increased when Michael Berry, the director of the University of California’s Center for Chinese Studies, began to translate her posts into English under the title “Now, her phone is tapped and she is subject to surveillance when she leaves her home, Fang told the Times of London.
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