CHINA-DISSIDENCE: WUHAN ACTIVIST FANG FANG CONCLUDES 60TH ENTRY IN HER DIARY
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Fang Fang, an activist blogger resident in Wuhan, posted the final episode of her diary captioned 'Conscience of Wuhan' on March 25. Fang Fang who has been attacked by ultra-leftists daily said 'that the extreme left threatens Chinese society with a national calamity. They are the biggest obstacle opposing China’s reform and opening! If this ultra-leftist force is allowed to run rampant and infect all Chinese society with its viruses, then reform will fail and China will have no future'. One particular entry of Fang Fang's that was very popular was when she wrote about a middle school classmate who had been infected and died. She said “Today our classmates are all crying for her. Our classmates who had always cheered our prosperity now say “If we don’t shoot the people responsible for this the anger of ordinary people will never be appeased!” Professor Dai Jianye of Wuhan’s Central China Normal University once commented, that he had heard that the government follows closely reports from the epidemic area and had sent hundreds of journalists to report on the epidemic area but “all of them together don’t match one Fang Fang.” He pointed out that compared to Fang Fang’s diary, there is “not even one article” among Chinese media worth reading and some of them “insult your intelligence”. For many people in Wuhan, the first thing they do when they get up in the morning is to read Fang Fang’s diary. They don’t pay attention to what is on the radio or what is in the newspapers or what the mass media is saying.
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