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COVID-1984

COVID-1984
Epidemic-prevention workers in protective suits stand outside a residential compound that is under lockdown in Beijing on Nov. 28, 2022. Thomas Peter/Reuters
Liao Yiwu
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In the Xi Jinping empire, the Wuhan virus (COVID-19) has undergone a three-year mutation. Instead of the Omicron with which all mankind is to coexist, it is COVID-1984—a kind of high-tech dictatorship never seen before, the monstrous spawn of the virus and internet technologies.

Liao Yiwu
Liao Yiwu
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Liao Yiwu is a Chinese writer, poet, and musician in exile, currently living in Berlin, Germany. He was imprisoned in China for four years in the 1990s after writing a poem about the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. He is the author of "The Corpse Walker," "God Is Red," and "For a Song and a Hundred Songs."
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