[Read: Chinese leaders are scared of their country’s history] Abroad, Fang is best known as the author of Wuhan Diary, an account of the city’s 2020 COVID lockdown, which initially controlled the ...

Expression of frustration at government policies or societal norms that do not respect people’s lives and dignity. “A grain of the sands of time” was coined by Fang Fang, the Chinese author ...

They had a son, who found success in China’s southern boomtowns, eventually returned to Wuhan, and bought an opulent ... apartment and a welfare check. As Fang unravels her characters’ stories ...