After the publication of the book’Wuhan Diary’
“This criticism was my first experience in my life”
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Fang Fang, the author of the book’Wuhan Diary’, which records the tragedy of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, criticized “No one was responsible or apologized” for the corona 19 outbreak.
On the 24th (local time), in a written interview with the Hong Kong South China Morning Post (SCMP), Pang Pang said, “I have not seen any of those responsible for accepting responsibility, regretting or apologizing. Nothing happened,” he said. As of the 23rd, the cumulative corona19 death in Wuhan, with a population of 11 million, was 3,869.
Fang Fang published the’Wuhan Diary’ on social media, which exposed the tragedy of Wuhan, which had been blocked for more than two months since January 23, last year, and the book that compiled it has become a bestseller abroad. However, for this reason, he was driven back from China. State media and some netizens criticized him for spreading unfounded claims and betraying his country.
Previously, Fang Fang stood at the center of controversy through books on land reform by the Chinese Communist Party in the 1950s. However, the criticism poured into the’Wuhan Diary’ was of a different level. Professor Liang Yanping of Hubei University’s Academy of Literature was fired after pursuing the’Wuhan Diary’ and was deprived of communist party membership. “I was over 60, but I experienced such criticism for the first time in my life,” said Pang Pang. “Because I couldn’t imagine that such a pandemic would occur or that I would be attacked online, the biggest feeling at the time was shock. It was” he looked back.
Nevertheless, Fangfang stressed that everyone should record the truth. “If people record factually, we can get as close to the truth as possible,” he said. “With many other records like mine, people can easily judge what’s right or wrong.”
Fang Fang also said in an interview with the Hong Kong Bin Fruit Daily, “As soon as the’Wuhan Diary’ was published, the attack started from the far left,” and “I am worried that my country will retreat to the period of the Cultural Revolution.” A native of Wuhan, he said, “The city was empty during the blockade.” “I’ve never seen such emptiness in my life. It was the emptiness that caused fear.” Fang Fang said, “The despair I wrote in the’Wuhan Diary’ was the despair of the patients. Until now, the medical services in Wuhan were good and the quality was high. “I never thought that a day would come when no one could go to the hospital or see a doctor when they were sick.”
Former Zhongshan University professor Ai Xiao-ming, who recorded the tragedy of Wuhan along with Fang Fang at the time, also told the Bingu Daily, “In order to prevent this from happening again, we must have the belief that we must record the pain we have experienced. I do” he emphasized.
/ Reporter Kwak Yoon-ah [email protected]
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