The Controversy over Fangfang’s Wuhan Diary: a conversation with the translator, Michael Berry

This week on Sinica, Kaiser speaks with Michael Berry, translator of the Wuhan-based writer’s controversial Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City. Michael discusses Fangfang’s body of work and how her daily online posts made her — and him — a target for critics who’ve denounced the diary as an act of national betrayal and have even leveled threats against both the author and the translator. Michael Berry is professor of contemporary Chinese cultural studies and director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.