Chinese writer faces nationalist backlash for 'Wuhan Diary'

Social media users have turned on the author – especially since new US-China diplomatic spat erupted. FMTNews WuhanDiary

Hit by a barrage of online insults, Fang says she’s the victim of ‘cyberbullying.

Fang began to document life in Wuhan, the city of 11 million where Covid-19 first emerged in December, after it was placed under an unprecedented lockdown on Jan 23. Born to a family of well-off intellectuals, the writer’s real name is Wang Fang but she uses the pen name Fang Fang.Readers flocked to the online diary to get an unfiltered account from Wuhan in a Communist-ruled country that lacks independent media.

And in an interview posted on the website of Chinese weekly Caixin, the author said she had received death threats and that her home address was posted online.

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