Fang Fang

Fang Fang (Chinese: 方方) is the pen name of Wang Fang (汪芳; born 11 May 1955), a Chinese writer who won the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2010. She was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. She went to Wuhan University in 1978 to study Chinese.

Quotes

• If authors have any responsibilities in the face of disaster, the greatest of them is to bear witness...I’ve always cared about how the weak survive great upheavals. The individuals who are left out — they’ve always been my chief concern.
  • April 14, 2020 She Kept a Diary of China’s Epidemic. Now She Faces a Political Storm.

• Why has our space of debate become so narrow?...The new coronavirus infection is totally under control in China. What is it (China) scared of, despite that?
  • December 15, 2020 Author of ‘Wuhan Diary’ now finds herself muzzled in China