The writer Fang Fang, who wrote the ‘Wuhan Diary’ during the city’s closure, which shook the country and abroad, but was also besieged by pro-official forces, spoke out again at the turn of the new and old years, writing on his personal microblog on New Year’s Eve: “The extreme left is the existence of China’s scourge!”
On New Year’s Eve, Fang Fang wrote on her microblog, “I don’t want to talk too much about this year of hardships and storms. I’ll record two paragraphs as a summary of the year’s congratulations, or as a record of highlights.”
The two paragraphs are ‘Chang Kai’s desperate letter’ and the last one she wrote in her ‘Wuhan Diary’. In the former, she believes that “history will remember the Changkai of 2020 and the hardships and perseverance we had” and that “I am still looking forward to 2021”; in the latter, she denounces the scourge of the ultra-leftist virus in China.
Chang Kai was a film director of Hubei Film Studio. During the Wuhan epidemic, his whole family was infected and nearly extinct, a tragic experience that touched countless people. He wrote a desperate letter on his deathbed, which caused a huge shock.
In the letter, he recounted: last year, on the 30th day of the Chinese New Year, the whole family gathered together, but unexpectedly, on the first day of the year, his father was infected with the virus and sent to the hospital for treatment, but a bed was hard to find. Finally, the virus also devoured his and his wife’s body, to several hospitals begging for a bed, “but the position is humble, it is difficult to find a bed, until the sickness is very serious ……”
Fang’s second paragraph is from the last part of her ‘Wuhan Diary’ and is extremely sharp, pointing out that “the extreme left is this scourge of the country and the people!” “If we allow this ultra-leftist force to run rampant and let this virus infect the whole society, reform will surely fail and China will have no future.”
As always, Fang Fang’s blog post resonated with many people, but it also drew attacks from the “extreme left”. Those who support Fang are highly affirmative and believe it speaks to their hearts, while those who attack Fang accuse him of ignoring China’s tremendous achievements in fighting the epidemic and of being “anachronistic”.
Sima Nan, who is considered a Maoist, followed up with a post accusing Fang of grasping the “extreme left definition of power” and that those who oppose him are extreme left. The pro-Beijing Dovetail.com website carried an article calling Fang’s New Year’s message “out of place.
According to the article, Fang’s perspective on China’s epidemic prevention will not be accepted by officials, and her “personalized narrative” will “hardly make any waves” and “put herself in a dangerous situation.
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