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Bei Zhenying had no interest in politics — until the police barged into her home, arrested her husband and accused him of secretly plotting to overthrow the Chinese government. She was left to try and uncover his hidden life.
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Vivian Wang
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Vivian Wang
@vwang3
China correspondent @nytimes. Previously in Hong Kong and New York. Can detect all free food within a five-mile radius. [email protected]
- Beijing right now: police have arrived but people gathered to mourn the Xinjiang fire victims are peacefully surrounding them and singing
00:00 - Both were 29-year-old medical workers. Both lived in Wuhan. Neither told their children when they got sick. Only one survived. How two women’s stories show the unpredictability and heartbreak of the coronavirus, by @suilee and me
- For 24 years, Guo Gangtang crossed China by motorbike searching for his son, abducted in 1997. A movie starring Andy Lau was made about his search. This week, they were finally reunited. W/ @QiuyiJoy nytimes.com/2021/07/14/wor…
- Whoa -- Texas inmates used their commissary funds to donate to hurricane relief, @ByMattStevens reports:
- Replying to @vwang3After police told people not to chant “no more lockdowns” they began chanting “more lockdowns” and “I want to do COVID tests”
00:00 - NY's attorney general has sued to dissolve the Trump Foundation; bar the president, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. from serving on charitable boards; and force millions in restitutions. @dannyhakim's story: nytimes.com/2018/06/14/nyr… and my explainer: nytimes.com/2018/06/14/nyr…
- The NYT’s incredible new project: writing belated obituaries for the trailblazing women who didn’t get them
- “The man who said he wouldn’t play golf as president learned that he would no longer serve as president while he was playing golf.”
- For a few weeks, some of the most distinctive voices out of Wuhan came from two video bloggers, Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin, who shared on-the-ground footage of pain, grief and terror caused by the coronavirus. Now, they're both missing.
- Replying to @vwang3Update on the elephants: they are still on the outskirts of Kunming, and have the most adorable sleeping formation
- My favorite absurdist feature of life in zero-Covid China: the Temporary Quarantine Area. First up from my ongoing collection: Chaoyang Park, Beijing
- The security law has visibly changed Hong Kong. Chinese flags appeared overnight, protest ones vanished. Even some who favor the law fear the price. If HK lost the right to protest, a mainland transplant told me, “I would feel deeply, deeply regretful.”
- “I’ve been a wife, a mother and a grandmother. I came out this time to find myself.” Had so much fun learning about Su Min, the Chinese auntie whose solo road trip turned her into an accidental feminist icon. W/ @QiuyiJoy
