By Philip Sherwell
Additional reporting Clara Ip
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES
Writer Wang Fang’s visceral posts as the ‘Voice of Wuhan’ were read by millions
DAVID LEVENSON
When China’s Communist Party announced the lifting of the lockdown in Wuhan, Wang Fang sat down at her keyboard, as she had done for the previous 60 evenings.
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith,” the Chinese novelist wrote, quoting the Bible.
Now her online chronicle of life, suffering and death at ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic — which was read by millions across China — has made her the target of Beijing’s wrath as Wuhan opens up again.
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