Tag Archives: Wuhan

2022: Wuhan Law Firm Sues Government Over Illegal Office Lockdown

Posted on 12/05/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

PRC law and Covid. This reminds me of the case of the Wuhan mayor who, at the outset of the epidemic, said in a TV broadcast interview The Law and Wuhan Mayor Zhou’s Excuse: I Followed the Rules, Blame Higher-Ups, … Continue reading →

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2022: Focus Development on People, Not the West

Posted on 11/07/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Hu Xuefeng, Director of Wuhan University Chinese Rural Governance Research Center, suggests shifting the policy focus of “Develop the West” to a policy of “Develop the People”. He outlines the shortcomings and waste of the Develop the West policy and … Continue reading →

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Liao Yiwu: PRC Gov’t Consolidated Power Thanks to the Coronavirus

Posted on 02/20/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Thorstein Fuchs interviewed Liao Yiwu for the German press service RND in his article entitled “Dissident Liao Yiwu: So festigt die chinesische Regierung dank Corona ihre Macht” Liao Yiwu shared me this article in Chinese, I found the German original … Continue reading →

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Free Imprisoned Chinese Journalist Zhang Zhan

Posted on 09/10/2021 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Exiled Chinese writer Liao Yiwu, author of The Corpse Walker and Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China After the Tiananmen Square Massacre, wrote this call for solidarity with imprisoned Chinese journalist Zhang Zhan. Zhang Zhan was arrested and imprisoned … Continue reading →

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Liao Yiwu: May We Never Forget Chinese Citizen-Journalist Li Zehua

Posted on 05/05/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Citizen-journalist Li Zehua, a freelance citizen-journalist who went to Wuhan during the outbreak of the coronavirus there, was detained by Chinese police on February 26th shortly after trying to do some investigation in the vicinity of the Wuhan P4 Laboratory … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Writer Fang Fang: “Disdainfully Facing Down a Finger-Pointing Epidemic” — The Ultra-Left is a Virus

Posted on 03/25/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

“Disdainfully Facing Down a Finger-Pointing Epidemic”: The Ultra-Left is a Virus (Central News Agency, Taipei, March 25th) As Wuhan prepares to end the closure of the city, author Fang Fang, known as the “Conscience of Wuhan” ended the diary she … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #41 The 45th Day of the Wuhan City Closure — March 7, 2020

Posted on 03/13/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

March 7, 2020 The 45th Day of the Wuhan City Closure Today is the first day that I have participated in the community group vegetable purchase. This wasn’t the group food purchase from the supermarket organized by officials but done … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #40 The 44th Day of the Wuhan City Closure — March 6, 2020

Posted on 03/08/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

March 6, 2020 The 44th Day of the Wuhan City Closure Fang Fang’s latest Wuhan closed city Diary was deleted from her public Weibo account. In her diary she discussed the video circulating on social media yesterday — during Deputy … Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #39 The 43rd Day of the Wuhan City Closure — March 5, 2020

Posted on 03/06/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

“Were the interventions to be introduced 5 days earlier than they had been, the number of cases nationwide would have been two-thirds less.” Continue reading →

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Wuhan Diary #38: The 42nd Day of the Wuhan City Closure — March 4, 2020

Posted on 03/04/2020 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

March 4 The Forty-second Day of the Wuhan City Closure As of today, the Wuhan city closure has already lasted three half-months. Yesterday, the number of new confirmed cases fell to one hundred. Many people got very excited hoping that … Continue reading →

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