Michael Berry is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA, USA. He is the author of Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (2006), A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (2008), Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Boiling the Sea: Hou Hsiao-hsien's Memories of Shadows and Light (2014), and Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke (2022); the editor of The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan (2022) and co-editor of Divided Lenses (2016) and Modernism Revisited (2016).   

1. Introduction: Origins. - 2. Viral Diary. - 3. Translation and the Virus. - 4. Attack the Title. - 5. Unleash the Trolls. - 6. Witch Hunt. - 7. Pop Goes Fang Fang? - 8. Wuhan Diaries. - 9. The Strange. - 10. Reasons. - 11. Lessons. - 12. Coda: The Light.