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A review by ericattang
Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from the Original Epicenter by Fang Fang
3.0
The title speaks for itself –– a diary.
To those who lash out on this book and denouncing it for being biased, read it like you read a diary. A diary is a momento, a piece of oral history. You don’t read Voices from Chernobyl and expect to understand a comprehensive, objective, deductive research paper with all facts about the nuclear disaster. You read a diary to hear a voice, to learn about perspectives not fit for traditional journalism. Fang Fang’s diary is one of the tiny puzzles that make up the big picture. Read critically and respect the author’s vantage point.
Everyone has the right to reflect on their own thoughts, obtain information, and document history from their microcosmic point of view. Less nationalistic sentiments entangled when you review Fang Fang’s book, please.
I also admit that the quality of her writing in this book is quite mediocre.
To those who lash out on this book and denouncing it for being biased, read it like you read a diary. A diary is a momento, a piece of oral history. You don’t read Voices from Chernobyl and expect to understand a comprehensive, objective, deductive research paper with all facts about the nuclear disaster. You read a diary to hear a voice, to learn about perspectives not fit for traditional journalism. Fang Fang’s diary is one of the tiny puzzles that make up the big picture. Read critically and respect the author’s vantage point.
Everyone has the right to reflect on their own thoughts, obtain information, and document history from their microcosmic point of view. Less nationalistic sentiments entangled when you review Fang Fang’s book, please.
I also admit that the quality of her writing in this book is quite mediocre.