‘Even mourning is said to shame China’: women of Wuhan fight to be heard

Three writers who blogged about life in the city where Covid began still face constant threats and monitoring

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When people from other places come to Wuhan now, they would have a feeling that nothing ever happened here," said Ai Xiaoming, sitting in the book-filled study of her home in the city at the heart of China's coronavirus outbreak last January.

It feels like they know nothing about the dead, or the families' feelings," said the 67-year-old writer and documentary film-maker. The [Chinese] media rarely reports on these issues. There is no space for these people to tell their stories."