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Wuhan

E-BookEPUB2 - DRM Adobe / EPUBE-Book
240 Seiten
Englisch
John Wiley & Sonserschienen am01.05.20241. Auflage
As rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to travel to the epicentre of the disaster to try to find out what is really going on. He sees an ad for corpse carriers at a funeral home - Male or female, 16-50 years old, unafraid of ghosts - and decides to apply. He quickly realises that the official death figures bear no relation to what is happening in the local crematoria. But the brief moment when he can tell the truth to his followers on social media is soon over: he is discovered, followed and arrested by the security police - all documented live on the internet.  

In this startlingly topical documentary novel, Liao Yiwu takes us into the heart of the crisis that unfolded in Wuhan and unpicks the secrecy and cover-up that surrounded the outbreak of the public health emergency that ravaged the world.  Where did the virus come from and what happened in Wuhan? Protocols are buried and new lies cement the story of the party's heroic victory - propaganda that poisons people like the virus.

Liao Yiwu is a Chinese writer living in Berlin.mehr
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KlappentextAs rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to travel to the epicentre of the disaster to try to find out what is really going on. He sees an ad for corpse carriers at a funeral home - Male or female, 16-50 years old, unafraid of ghosts - and decides to apply. He quickly realises that the official death figures bear no relation to what is happening in the local crematoria. But the brief moment when he can tell the truth to his followers on social media is soon over: he is discovered, followed and arrested by the security police - all documented live on the internet.  

In this startlingly topical documentary novel, Liao Yiwu takes us into the heart of the crisis that unfolded in Wuhan and unpicks the secrecy and cover-up that surrounded the outbreak of the public health emergency that ravaged the world.  Where did the virus come from and what happened in Wuhan? Protocols are buried and new lies cement the story of the party's heroic victory - propaganda that poisons people like the virus.

Liao Yiwu is a Chinese writer living in Berlin.
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Weitere ISBN/GTIN9781509563005
ProduktartE-Book
EinbandartE-Book
FormatEPUB
Format Hinweis2 - DRM Adobe / EPUB
FormatFormat mit automatischem Seitenumbruch (reflowable)
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum01.05.2024
Auflage1. Auflage
Seiten240 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Dateigrösse351 Kbytes
Artikel-Nr.14634808
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Genre9201

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
To the Reader

Prelude: The Intruder

Chapter 1: A City Forced to Close
Chapter 2: A Viral Prison of French Origin
Chapter 3: Who's Eating the Bats?
Chapter 4: Li Wenliang is Gone, The Truth is Dead
Chapter 5: Daily Life in Isolation
Chapter 6: An Asymptomatic Spreader
Chapter 7: Passing through No-man's Land
Chapter 8: On Two Sides of the Border
Chapter 9: The Virus Leaves the Country
Chapter 10: Scientists Against ""Conspiracy Theories""
Chapter 11: Unrestricted Warfare
Chapter 12: His Imperial Majesty Arrives
Chapter 13: An Illegal Border Crosser Goes Home
Chapter 14: The Republic of Disappeared People - A Hitchcock Mystery
Epilogue: Wuhan Elegy

Appendices
How was Wuhan written?
The Blank Paper Revolution
History will Remember this Unprecedented Shout of Anger
Poem: My Sole Weapon is Spit
The Spirits of the Boundless Departed have Opened and Closed this Book: Thanks to the friends who participated in creating itmehr
Leseprobe

1
A City Forced to Close

At ten in the morning on January 23, 2020, government officials in China announced the implementation of the Wuhan City Closure Order. The subway and all buses, trains, planes, and ships ceased to operate, and nearly nine million residents were told they would not be allowed to leave. By ten o´clock the next morning, other cities in Hubei Province, such as Ezhou, Huanggang, Red Cliff,* Xiantao, Zhijiang, Qianjiang, Xianning, Jingmen, Dangyang, Huangshi, Enshi, and Xiaogan, had also announced the implementation of similar closure orders. It was precisely at this historical juncture that the unlucky Ai Ding boarded a Hainan Airlines flight from Berlin Tegel Airport and began his long trip home to Wuhan. However, as soon as he landed at Beijing Airport, he was informed his previously booked flight to Wuhan had been canceled.

He instantly called his wife at home in Wuhan, who exclaimed, What?! You could have come back sooner or come back later, but instead you come back precisely at this time! He said, It´s the same as I´ve done during Spring Festival in previous years; the ticket´s booked half a year beforehand. She asked, You can´t change it? He replied, This type of special-price ticket can´t be changed, unless it´s voided; moreover, I´d have had to extend my visa in Germany. Getting this done at the Foreign Affairs Bureau is a real pain. Now what was he to do? Surely Wuhan, well known as the main thoroughfare of nine provinces, its dozens of roads extending in all directions, couldn´t really be closed? But his wife assured him it was.

While the competence of the communist army in serving the people is extremely low, its effectiveness at closing a city to the people is very high, and if they still can´t get it done, they bring in a field army. Ai Ding continued, I´ll first get a feel for what´s going on around Wuhan and take my chances when I find a way in. I know the terrain. If I can´t get in by water, I´ll do it by land. If the roads are blocked, I´ll attempt it overland at night. It´ll be no problem as I´m part-coyote and part-weasel anyway. His wife said, No, please, don´t cause trouble. If you´re caught and isolated, your dad is sick in bed again, so I´ll not be able to come and help you. It´d be better if you flew to Changsha and stayed at my parents´ house for a while. He replied, But your parents have gone to Shanghai to find your younger brother. She shot back, Exactly, and they wouldn´t dare take you in if they were there either.

Ai Ding still wanted to talk, but his wife made a show of her steely will and simply hung up on him. He´d not expected when he returned to his homeland, even before his feet had touched the ground, that he´d be forced to find his way home cross-country. Fortunately, Beijing had not yet declared an emergency. Contrary to what happened later, he wasn´t required to quarantine for fourteen days as soon as he got off the plane, nor was he forced to stay in a hotel with a guard outside his door at a daily cost of 1,000 Yuan.

After a few hours´ wait, Ai Ding boarded a plane with a long line of other passengers and took a window seat. The crimson clouds at sunset looked quite spectacular, like mountains made up of tens of thousands of tons of blood oranges. On an impulse, he took a few photos and sent them to his wife on WeChat, expressing his thoughts: A beautiful night, a lengthy road, Wuhan people have a hard time returning home. In the blink of an eye, his wife replied: Wuhan people have a hard time leaving home too, eh. Hey, have you got a mask, hand sanitizer, and mouthwash with you?

The entire cabin was filled with pristine white masks and flight attendants shuttled back and forth spraying disinfectant. Next to Ai Ding was a middle-aged couple. The wife had a baby in her arms, so a stewardess leaned over expressly to check her seat-belt - night fell as they lifted off. In a flash they were over 10,000 meters in the night air. A flight attendant handed out small snacks and small bottles of water. Soon after, Ai Ding had been slapped and blood was streaming down from two scratch marks on his left cheek. As the woman with the child was drinking water, she´d casually asked him where he was from, and he´d answered Hubei. Without another word, she then attacked him with a flurry of blows. Ai Ding warded her off, but he´s an intellectual and couldn´t give as good as he got. And the couple wouldn´t let up, unfastening their seat-belts, standing up, and yelling for a flight attendant. When one hurried over, the woman revealed Ai Ding´s identity: There´s somebody from Hubei sitting here! We won´t sit with a Hubei person! We´re afraid of the virus! The flight attendant replied, I´m so sorry, but there are no empty seats.

The man said, That won´t do, a small child is the most susceptible to infection. The flight attendant responded: Every passenger had their temperature taken before boarding the plane, and this gentleman was normal. How about if I get my forehead gun and take it again. Would that be okay? The couple yelled in unison, No it would not!

The attendant was overwhelmed and called for the cabin manager. Now many other passengers were standing up and scolding Ai Ding: Why didn´t you let us know you were from Hubei before boarding? Have you no sense of public morality? You´re supposed to self-isolate if you get sick, don´t act all innocent, you´ve boarded this plane to harm us all. You´re a sly one, underground Hubei guy. We Chinese want to revoke the citizenship of Hubei people!

Seeing the situation was getting out of hand, Ai Ding stood up too and loudly explained: I´m an overseas scholar just returned from Germany. I haven´t been in Wuhan for a year. But the situation was out of control. Someone shouted: Liar! and somebody else: We demand compensation from the airline! A diagnosed coronavirus patient is on the plane! Ai Ding anxiously yelled in response: I´ve not been diagnosed! The crowd roared back: But you could be infected! Where are the air marshals? Hurry up and deal with him! Hey, any of you people here, if you´re from Wuhan or Hubei, please come forward and confess immediately, self-isolate, don´t act against reason and nature.

Befuddled by all this, Ai Ding had to go to the rear of the plane with an air marshal and was locked into a bathroom for isolation. After the plane landed in Changsha and all other passengers had left, he was taken to the Huanghua International Airport police station. He showed them his passport and boarding passes for international flights, proving he was a Wuhan native who had nothing to do with the Wuhan virus. Even so, even if you have never had a fever, a police officer said, you´ll still have to stay in a hotel near the airport for two weeks. You´ll be responsible for your own expenses during the quarantine observation period, which is necessary as we´ve no way of investigating those with whom you have been in contact in Germany.

But there is no novel coronavirus in Germany.

We can´t guarantee they won´t find it in the future. This virus is like a spy, with a long incubation period and no warning signs.

The Changsha police were surprisingly reasonable, and Ai Ding was released after only one week of isolation. Before leaving, he was also given ten pricey N95 masks, but, of course, that cost was included in the invoice for his lodging. Due to the high-speed rail restrictions, he took a sterilized airport bus to Zuanshi Ling Street in Yuelu District, north of the Xiangjiang River. After getting off the bus, he used his smartphone map to locate his wife´s family home behind a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. Once he got the key from a neighbor, he entered, collapsed on a sofa, took out his phone, and sent a WeChat message that all was well to his wife and his old friend Wang Xilin, far away in Berlin. His wife replied: Our daughter and I know you´re like an insatiable cat circling the cauldron of Wuhan, but under no circumstances can you come back now! We´ve over a dozen dead in this building! Four entire families are dead! Originally it didn´t seem so many would die, but the hospital couldn´t squeeze them all in and told them all to isolate at home. What the hell?! Stay home and infect others. Right now, a crematorium collection truck is still parked below. It was driven over here from a neighboring community. I´m using our daughter´s telescope to see inside and it´s stuffed full of bodies. The workers are struggling to cram still more inside. And this leads to a landslide of bodies falling all over the place, and now they´re being lifted and restacked like pieces of wood. The body bags are all yellow, indistinguishable. Resources here are tight, there´re no spare vehicles for corpse transport ... We´ve not been downstairs for over a week now. We...
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