"A metropolis with a population of about 11 million, Wuhan sits at the crossroads of China. It was here that in the last days of 2019, the first reports of a mysterious new form of pneumonia emerged. Before long, an abrupt and unprecedented lockdown was declared--the first of many such responses to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world. This book tells the ... story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city's own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, the sociologist Guobin Yang ... depicts how the city coped during the crisis. He analyzes how the state managed--or mismanaged--the lockdown and explores how Wuhan's residents responded by taking on increasingly active roles"-- Provided by publisher.
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