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About this book
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. Also available as an audiobook.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- To the Reader
- Prelude
- 1 A City Forced to Close
- 2 A Viral Prison: Made in France
- 3 Who’s Eating the Bats?
- 4 Li Wenliang is Gone – The Truth is Dead
- 5 Daily Life in Isolation
- 6 An Asymptomatic Spreader
- 7 Passing through No-Man’s Land
- 8 On Two Sides of the Border
- 9 The Virus Leaves the Country
- 10 Scientists against “Conspiracy Theories”
- 11 Unrestricted Warfare
- 12 His Imperial Majesty Arrives
- 13 An Illegal Border Crosser Goes Home
- 14 The Republic of Disappeared People
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- End User License Agreement