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In official exhibitions and media, Wuhan is celebrated as the “city of heroes,” a triumph of the Chinese Communist Party. Across China, mentions of fatalities are muted. Wuhan still has not released statistics for cremations in the first quarter of last year, many months after they would normally be reported. Writers and independent journalists who even mildly challenge the glowing official accounts of Wuhan’s crisis have been vilified in Chinese media, detained or even imprisoned. “It has always been this way in China. How many tens of millions died in the Great Leap famine? How many in the Cultural Revolution,”...
