Wuhan Will Suffer Long After Virus is Gone, ‘Battlefield’ Diarist Says

(Wuhan) ⁠— Shortly after midnight on March 25th, novelist-turned-celebrity blogger Fang Fang published the final episode of her Wuhan lockdown diary, called a “battlefield diary” by some. The 64-year-old has been a writer most of her career, but never expected to become one of the nation’s most-read bloggers in late January, when she started writing a diary from the epicenter of an outbreak that would go on to become a global epidemic. Between Jan. 25, the first day of the Chinese New Year, and March 24th, the day Wuhan announced its lockdown would end on April 8th, Fang Fang published an online diary for 60 days, expressing her views on the unprecedented public disaster that began in her adopted hometown in Central China. In the final installment, read by millions, she quoted a Biblical verse: “I have fought the good fight; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith.”