Wuhan
eBook - ePub

Wuhan

A Documentary Novel

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Wuhan

A Documentary Novel

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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Information

Publisher
Polity
Year
2024
Print ISBN
9781509562992
eBook ISBN
9781509563005

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. To the Reader
  6. Prelude
  7. 1 A City Forced to Close
  8. 2 A Viral Prison: Made in France
  9. 3 Who’s Eating the Bats?
  10. 4 Li Wenliang is Gone – The Truth is Dead
  11. 5 Daily Life in Isolation
  12. 6 An Asymptomatic Spreader
  13. 7 Passing through No-Man’s Land
  14. 8 On Two Sides of the Border
  15. 9 The Virus Leaves the Country
  16. 10 Scientists against “Conspiracy Theories”
  17. 11 Unrestricted Warfare
  18. 12 His Imperial Majesty Arrives
  19. 13 An Illegal Border Crosser Goes Home
  20. 14 The Republic of Disappeared People
  21. Epilogue
  22. Appendices
  23. End User License Agreement