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This short chapter begins with a reflection on how cultural discourse about disease often contracts and becomes more conservative with the outbreak of actual public health crisis events; this was certainly the case with COVID-19 in China. The book concludes with a series of quotations from average Chinese netizens who voiced support for Wuhan Diary during the height of the online campaign against the book. These voices reveal a more complex view of Chinese political views that challenge the one-sided narrative provided by official media outlets. Instead, these posts reveal a glimpse of a true civil society.
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Berry, Michael. SARS@Hong Kong: A Brief Pathology of a Cinema of Disease. In A Journal of the Plague Year. Sternberg Press, 2015. Pg. 84.
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Ibid. Pg. 99.
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Zhang Sheng 張生. “Professor Michael Berry” (“Bai Ruiwen jiaoshou” 白睿文教授) originally posted to Weibo on April 16, 2020, reprinted on numerous websites, including: https://posts.careerengine.us/p/5ead539fff7e81298ce3071a.
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Berry, M. (2022). Coda: The Light. In: Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16859-8_12
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