Fang Fang

China

The well-known Chinese writer Fang Fang is a Wuhan resident who, throughout the city’s lockdown, kept a diary on her Weibo social media account providing insights into the censorship and the hospital system’s collapse. The 65-year-old author’s diary entries have been turned into a book that was published in English on 15 May under the title of “Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City.” A French-language version was published on 4 June and it is due to be published in German on 9 September. Because of the diary, she has been harassed by trolls on the government’s payroll.