Fang Fang

Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City

Das Tagebuch der berühmten chinesischen Schriftstellerin Fang Fang aus einer abgeriegelten Stadt ist ein einzigartiges, ergreifendes Zeitdokument über den Kampf gegen einen unsichtbaren Feind, den die Menschen in Wuhan weltweit als erste führten. Wuhan: Am 25. Januar, zwei Tage nachdem erstmals in der Geschichte eine 9-Millionen-Einwohner-Stadt komplett von der Außenwelt abgeriegelt wurde, beginnt Fang Fang, online Tagebuch zu schreiben. Eingeschlossen in ihrer Wohnung berichtet sie vom Hereinbrechen und dem Verlauf einer Katastrophe, von der Panik während der ersten Tage der Covid-19-Epidemie bis zu ihrer erfolgreichen Eindämmung. Sie erzählt von der Einsamkeit, dem heroischen Kampf des Personals in den Krankenhäusern, vom Leid der Erkrankten, dem Schmerz der Angehörigen von Verstorbenen und der Solidarität unter Nachbarn. Millionen Chinesen folgen ihren Gedanken und ihren Geschichten aus dem unmöglichen Alltag – vom Zorn über die Untätigkeit und Vertuschungsmanöver der Behörden während der Anfangsphase der Epidemie und der Unterdrückung warnender Stimmen, bis zur Anerkennung der wirkungsvollen Maßnahmen der Regierung in den Wochen danach. Fang Fang liefert einen unverstellten Blick auf die Katastrophe "von unten", ganz nah an den Menschen, ihren Ängsten und Nöten, aber auch ihren kleinen Freuden und dem speziellen Wuhaner Humor selbst in dunkelsten Stunden. Zugleich wurde ihr Wuhan Diary in China zum Gegenstand erbitterter Auseinandersetzung über den Umgang mit kritischen Stimmen und Verantwortung – und somit über Chinas künftigen Weg. "Als Zeugen, die wir die tragischen Tage von Wuhan miterlebt haben, sind wir verpflichtet, für diejenigen Gerechtigkeit einzufordern, die gestorben sind." - Fang Fang

Tagebuch aus einer gesperrten Stadt

Wuhan Diary

Michael Berry

From one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang’s nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced isolation, the role of the internet as both community lifeline and source of misinformation, and most tragically, the lives of neighbors and friends taken by the deadly virus. A fascinating eyewitness account of events as they unfold, Wuhan Diary captures the challenges of daily life and the changing moods and emotions of being quarantined without reliable information. Fang Fang finds solace in small domestic comforts and is inspired by the courage of friends, health professionals and volunteers, as well as the resilience and perseverance of Wuhan’s nine million residents. But, by claiming the writer ́s duty to record she also speaks out against social injustice, abuse of power, and other problems which impeded the response to the epidemic and gets herself embroiled in online controversies because of it. As Fang Fang documents the beginning of the global health crisis in real time, we are able to identify patterns and mistakes that many of the countries dealing with the novel coronavirus have later repeated. She reminds us that, in the face of the new virus, the plight of the citizens of Wuhan is also that of citizens everywhere. As Fang Fang writes: “The virus is the common enemy of humankind; that is a lesson for all humanity. The only way we can conquer this virus and free ourselves from its grip is for all members of humankind to work together.” Blending the intimate and the epic, the profound and the quotidian, Wuhan Diary is a remarkable record of an extraordinary time. Translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry

Dispatches from a Quarantined City

Wuhan. Diari da una città chiusa

Pada 25 Januari 2020, setelah pemerintah pusat memberlakukan kuncitara di Wuhan, penulis terkenal Tiongkok, Fang Fang, mulai menerbitkan buku hariannya secara daring. Setiap malam, unggahan Fang Fang menyuarakan ketakutan, kemarahan, dan harapan jutaan warganya. Kisahnya merefleksikan dampak psikologis dari isolasi paksa dan yang paling tragis: nyawa tetangga dan teman yang diambil oleh virus mematikan itu. Sebagai laporan saksi mata, Wuhan Diary berbicara lantang menentang ketidakadilan sosial, penyalahgunaan kekuasaan, dan masalah lain yang menghambat respons terhadap epidemi dan membuat dirinya terlibat dalam kontroversi daring karenanya. Melalui catatan hariannya, Fang Fang berupaya mengingatkan kita bahwa dalam menghadapi virus baru, penderitaan warga Wuhan juga menimpa warga di mana-mana, “Virus adalah musuh bersama umat manusia. Satu-satunya cara untuk menaklukkan virus ini dan membebaskan diri dari cengkeramannya adalah dengan kerja sama seluruh umat manusia.” [Mizan, Mizan Publising, Bentang Pustaka, Biography, Journalist, Indonesia]

Zeyun Liu

Based on theories of economics, sociology, and education, the book aims to explore the role of government and the market in China’s higher education investment. The authors comprehensively overview the characteristics of China's higher education investment system, including government funding, tuition fees, and social donations. In particular, an econometric model has been established to estimate the impact of university investment on the scale of regional higher education and average university student expenditure. Besides, they also make an international comparative analysis of the current changing trend of higher education investment structure and put forward countermeasures and suggestions to improve the government's financial and social investment in higher education. Professional scholars and postgraduate students studying Chinese higher education, the economics of education, and education finance will find this book helpful and inspiring.

Retrospect and Prospect

Higher Education Financing in China

Contemporary Chinese Women Writers, Five

Contemporary Chinese Women Writers II.

Weiches Begräbnis

"Children of the Bitter River" (Fengjing) narrates a Chinese version of the Horatio Alger myth of a poor boy achieving fame and fortune. In addition to daunting poverty, the hero, Seventh Brother, must overcome the trauma of physical abuse. His story and that of his six brothers traces the history of China from the 1930s to the mid-1980s. His brothers' failures highlight the resilience of Seventh Brother's character and the shrewdness of his choices. Remarkably, the story is narrated by brother number eight, who died when he was two weeks old and is buried face up outside the window of the family shanty. From his shallow grave, he watches the story unfold. Fang Fang devotes much of her novel to depicting roles of women in Chinese society: mother, lover, romantic ideal, femme fatale, rape victim, tormentor, business rival. The hero's triumph hinges on his acceptance of a male-female relationship unthinkable in traditional China: marriage to a woman who cannot bear children. His embracing of this exceptional relationship is the key to his remarkable rise to power and status in the new China.Spellbinding in its narrative and epic in scope, "Children of the Bitter River" is a compelling and unforgettable tale of survival and triumph under the most harrowing circumstances. Fengjing was translated into French as "Une vue splendide"

Children of the Bitter River (Fengjing)

Du début de la pandémie de Covid-19 qui a bouleversé le monde, nous ne savons rien. En janvier 2020, pour la première fois dans l’histoire, une ville de plus de dix millions d’habitants est mise en quarantaine. Enfermée dans son appartement, l’écrivaine Fang Fang tient son journal en ligne. Jour après jour, suivie par des millions de lecteurs, elle retrace l’histoire d’une catastrophe, depuis le chaos glaçant des premières semaines jusqu’à l’enrayement de l’épidémie. Fang Fang raconte la mort et la peur, la solidarité des habitants, le silence des responsables, le courage des lanceurs d’alerte, la débrouille et les petites joies, les plaisanteries et la colère qui circulent, le printemps qui vient dans une ville qu’elle aime. Alors qu’il se heurte à la censure et à de violentes attaques, ce témoignage unique nous rappelle nos premiers devoirs dans les heures sombres : l’indépendance d’esprit et l’humanité. Traduit du chinois par Frédéric Dalléas et Geneviève Imbot-Bichet

Journal

Wuhan, ville close

From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting on the psychological impact of forced isolation, the role of the internet as both community lifeline and source of misinformation, and most tragically, the lives of neighbors and friends taken by the deadly virus. A fascinating eyewitness account of events as they unfold, Wuhan Diary captures the challenges of daily life and the changing moods and emotions of being quarantined without reliable information. Fang Fang finds solace in small domestic comforts and is inspired by the courage of friends, health professionals and volunteers, as well as the resilience and perseverance of Wuhan's nine million residents. But, by claiming the writer ́s duty to record she also speaks out against social injustice, abuse of power, and other problems which impeded the response to the epidemic and gets herself embroiled in online controversies because of it. As Fang Fang documents the beginning of the global health crisis in real time, we are able to identify patterns and mistakes that many of the countries dealing with the novel coronavirus have later repeated. She reminds us that, in the face of the new virus, the plight of the citizens of Wuhan is also that of citizens everywhere. As Fang Fang writes: "The virus is the common enemy of humankind; that is a lesson for all humanity. The only way we can conquer this virus and free ourselves from its grip is for all members of humankind to work together." Blending the intimate and the epic, the profound and the quotidian, Wuhan Diary is a remarkable record of an extraordinary time. Translated from the Chinese by Michael Berry

Jingbiao Chen

Xuzong Chen

Hong Guo

Zhiwen Liu

Yanhui Wang

Xiaoji Zhou

Ever since the invention of the cesium atomic clock in 1955, quantum frequency standards have seen considerable development over the decades, as a representative of quantum precision measurement. The progress in frequency measurements achieved in the past allowed one to perform quantum precision measurements of other physical and technical quantities with unprecedented precision, whenever they could be traced back to a frequency measurement. Using atomic transitions as frequency reference, quantum frequency standards are far less susceptible to external perturbations, and the identity of microscopic particles allows easy replication of a quantum standard with the same frequency. With laser cooling and trapping, cold atomic ensembles eliminate Doppler shift broadening, and have become the go-to quantum reference when precision and new physics are pursued. The advancement of laser cooling and cold atom physics, in addition to novel physical matter states such as Bose-Einstein Condensation, give rise to new experimental techniques in quantum precision measurement, especially quantum frequency standards, such as cesium fountain clocks dictating the SI second, as well as optical lattice clocks and single-ion optical clocks pushing the frontier of quantum metrology. Other areas of quantum metrology, such as gravitometers and magnetometers, also benefit greatly from cold atoms. For practical applications, quantum frequency standards are usually required to be compact and portable, and thermal atoms in the form of atomic beams or vapor cells are utilized. Commercially available quantum frequency standards such as cesium beam clocks or rubidium clocks have become the cornerstone of navigation and timekeeping. Compact optical clocks based on various laser spectroscopic techniques have also been developed. As researchers strive to break through the limits of accurate quantum measurement and atomic temperature, new fields such as precise measurement, quantum computing and quantum simulation based on cold atoms are further opened up, and challenges still exist to explore new physical phenomena in the field of cold atoms. In honor of Prof. Yiqiu Wang on the occasion of his 90th birthday, the main goal of this Research Topic is to provide a platform to exhibit the recent achievements and reveal the future challenges in quantum precision measurement, as well as studies of cold atom physics with quantum metrology, closely related to the long-term scientific research areas of Prof. Yiqiu Wang. Both Original Research and Review articles are encouraged. Topics of interest to this collection include, but are not limited to: • Quantum precision measurements • Microwave atomic clocks and their applications • Optical frequency standards, laser spectroscopy, and their applications • Quantum measurement based on cold atom • Quantum computation and quantum simulation based on cold atom

Quantum Precision Measurement and Cold Atom Physics

„Fesselnd wie ein Opiumrausch.“ Le Monde Wer China verstehen will, sollte diesen Roman lesen: In ihrem zuerst gefeierten, dann verfemten Roman rührt Fang Fang an die Traumata der chinesischen Seele. Als Weiches Begräbnis 2016 in China erscheint, wird der Roman als wichtigstes chinesisches Werk der letzten Jahrzehnte gefeiert und mit dem renommierten Literaturpreis Lu Yao ausgezeichnet. Doch als bei einer Parteizusammenkunft der Roman mit dem Vokabular der Kulturrevolution als „Giftpflanze“ verbrämt wird, verschwindet das Buch vom Markt. Denn Fang Fang rührt darin an ein unverarbeitetes Trauma der chinesischen Gesellschaft, die Landreform nach 1948, als Millionen Chines*innen hingerichtet und in „weichen Begräbnissen“, d.h. ohne Sarg, verscharrt wurden. In einem kleinen Dorf wird eine junge Frau halbtot aus einem Fluss gezogen, sie erinnert sich an nichts. Der Dorfarzt Dr. Wu rettet ihr das Leben, und sie beginnt ein neues: Sie wird Haushälterin des KP-Kaders vor Ort, heiratet ihren Retter Dr. Wu, und sie bekommen einen Sohn. Doch im Laufe der Jahre löst sich der schützende Kokon des Vergessens. Sie sind verdammt zu schweigen, denn das Schweigen schützt die Familie: auch dafür steht „weiches Begräbnis“, die Erinnerung so tief zu begraben, dass gefährliches Wissen für immer verlorengeht. Im Schatten dieses Traumas wächst ihr Sohn auf – doch alles ändert sich, als er beginnt, die Vergangenheit zu erforschen.

Zhi-Hua Zhou

Changyin Sun

Wankou Yang

Zhiyong Liu

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2013, held in Beijing, China, in July/August 2013. The 111 papers presented were carefully peer-reviewed and selected from 390 submissions. Topics covered include information theoretic and Bayesian approaches; probabilistic graphical models; pattern recognition and computer vision; signal processing and image processing; machine learning and computational intelligence; neural networks and neuro-informatics; statistical inference and uncertainty reasoning; bioinformatics and computational biology and speech recognition and natural language processing.

4th International Conference, IScIDE 2013, Beijing, China, July 31 -- August 2, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering

Jian Yang

This book constitutes the proceedings of the third Sino-foreign-interchange Workshop on Intelligence Science and Intelligent Data Engineering, IScIDE 2012, held in Nanjing, China, in October 2012. The 105 papers presented were carefully peer-reviewed and selected from 429 submissions. Topics covered include pattern recognition; computer vision and image processing; machine learning and computational intelligence; knowledge discovery, data mining, and web mining; graphics and computer visualization; and multimedia processing and applications.

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