Over two years after Dr. Li Wenliang’s death from COVID-19, the “Wailing Wall” attached to his Weibo account continues to act as a repository for the thoughts, hopes, fears and opinions of countless Chinese citizens. CDT editors regularly archive and translate Wailing Wall content, including the selection of comments below.
Recent comments continue to be dominated by sympathy for the trafficked woman found shackled in a shed in Fengxian, Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. Sentiments include doubts about the official findings in the case, including whether the woman identified by officials as Xiaohuamei of Yunnan Province could actually be Li Ying, a girl kidnapped from Sichuan; concerns about the woman’s current health and whereabouts; hopes that she would be allowed to speak for herself; and worries that the fighting in Ukraine would eclipse her story and cause people to forget about her plight. Some commenters contrasted the intense interest in Ukraine with the relative silence on the Xuzhou woman’s situation. Others expressed fears for Ukranians and others caught up in the fighting, along with more existential fears of war, and hopes for peace. Some commenters also mentioned the recent news that Dr. Zhang Yu, the whistleblower oncologist who exposed “mass misconduct” in tumor treatments by dozens of prominent physicians—some of which has since been confirmed by Caixin—was expelled from his position at Peking University’s Third Hospital.
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