Deadly quiet city : stories from Wuhan, COVID ground zero

Resource Information

The work Deadly quiet city : stories from Wuhan, COVID ground zero represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Deadly quiet city : stories from Wuhan, COVID ground zero

Title remainder

stories from Wuhan, COVID ground zero

Statement of responsibility

Murong Xuecun

Title variation

Stories from Wuhan, COVID ground zero

Creator

• Murong, Xuecun, 1974-

Contributor

• Hamilton, Clive

Author

• Murong, Xuecun, 1974-

Editor

• Hamilton, Clive

Subject

• COVID-19 (Disease) -- China | Wuhan -- Anecdotes
• COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects -- China | Wuhan
• COVID-19 (Disease) -- Social aspects -- China | Wuhan -- Anecdotes
• COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects -- China | Wuhan
• COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects -- China | Wuhan -- Anecdotes
• China -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Coronavirus infections -- China | Wuhan
• Pandemics -- China | Wuhan -- History -- 21st century
• Quarantine -- China | Wuhan -- History -- 21st century
• Australian
• Red hot reads
• Wuhan (China) -- History -- 21st century
• Wuhan (China) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Wuhan (China) -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
• Quarantine -- China | Wuhan -- History -- 21st century -- Anecdotes
• COVID-19 (Disease) -- China | Wuhan

Genre

• Red hot reads
• Anecdotes

Language

eng

Summary

This is a unique piece of history that follows eight stories of people in Wuhan during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns. Deadly Quiet City is an unforgettable collection of true stories from the early months of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan. On 23 January 2020, Wuhan was placed in total lockdown. The city of eleven million - the centre of China's coronavirus outbreak - was cut off from the world. As cherry blossoms fell on silent streets, people were left anxious and afraid, struggling to find medicine, food or information about the virus that had trapped them in their homes. In April 2020, Murong Xuecun bravely travelled to the locked-down city, covertly interviewing people from all walks of life on their experiences as the catastrophe unfolded. An exhausted doctor in a small hospital, battling the virus while sick. An illegal motorcycle taxi driver, ferrying people around the empty city. A citizen journalist fighting to reveal the truth of what happened during that endless spring. The result is eight stories that capture the voices and griefs of a city, and that Murong had to leave China in order to publish. Vivid and haunting, Deadly Quiet City is a unique piece of literary history that reveals so much about the lives of people, the pandemic and China today

Cataloging source

NJB

Dewey number

616.2414

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction