Liao Yiwu 
Wuhan [EPUB ebook] 
A Documentary Novel

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.

Innehållsförteckning

To the Reader


Prelude: The Intruder


Chapter 1: A City Forced to Close

Chapter 2: A Viral Prison of French Origin

Chapter 3: Who’s Eating the Bats?

Chapter 4: Li Wenliang is Gone, The Truth is Dead

Chapter 5: Daily Life in Isolation

Chapter 6: An Asymptomatic Spreader

Chapter 7: Passing through No-man’s Land

Chapter 8: On Two Sides of the Border

Chapter 9: The Virus Leaves the Country

Chapter 10: Scientists Against ”Conspiracy Theories”

Chapter 11: Unrestricted Warfare

Chapter 12: His Imperial Majesty Arrives

Chapter 13: An Illegal Border Crosser Goes Home

Chapter 14: The Republic of Disappeared People – A Hitchcock Mystery

Epilogue: Wuhan Elegy


Appendices

How was
Wuhan written?

The Blank Paper Revolution

History will Remember this Unprecedented Shout of Anger

Poem: My Sole Weapon is Spit

The Spirits of the Boundless Departed have Opened and Closed this Book: Thanks to the friends who participated in creating it

Om författaren

Liao Yiwu is a Chinese writer living in Berlin.