Translation, disinformation, and Wuhan diary : anatomy of a transpacific cyber campaign / Michael Berry.
Berry, Michael, 1974- author.
2022
P306 .B47 2022
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Title Translation, disinformation, and Wuhan diary : anatomy of a transpacific cyber campaign / Michael Berry.
Author Berry, Michael, 1974- author.
ISBN 3031168593 electronic book
9783031168598 (electronic bk.)
3031168585
9783031168581
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16859-8
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 232 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-16859-8 doi
Call Number P306 .B47 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.09510905
Summary During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fangs Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for people around the world to understand the outbreak, local response, and how the novel coronavirus was impacting everyday people. But when news of the international publication of Wuhan Diary appeared online in early April of 2020, Fang Fangs writings became the target of a series of online attacks by "Chinese ultra-nationalists." Over time, these attacks morphed into one of the most sophisticated and protracted hate Campaigns against a Chinese writer in decades. Meanwhile, as controversy around Wuhan Diary swelled in China, the author was transformed into a global icon, honored by the BBC as one of the most influential women of 2020 and featured in stories by dozens of international news outlets. This book, by the translator of Wuhan Diary into English, alternates between a first-hand account of the translation process and more critical observations on how a diary became a lightning rod for fierce political debate and the target of a sweeping online campaign that many described as a "cyber Cultural Revolution." Eventually, even Berry would be pulled into the attacks and targeted by thousands of online trolls. This book answers the questions: why would an online lockdown diary elicit such a strong reaction among Chinese netizens? How did the controversy unfold and evolve? Who was behind it? And what can we learn from the "Fang Fang Incident" about contemporary Chinese politics and society? The book will be of interest to students and scholars of translation, as well as anyone with special interest in translation, US-Chinese relations, or internet culture more broadly. Michael Berry is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at UCLA, USA. He is the author of Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (2006), A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film (2008), Jia Zhangkes Hometown Trilogy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Boiling the Sea: Hou Hsiao-hsiens Memories of Shadows and Light (2014), and Jia Zhangke on Jia Zhangke (2022); the editor of The Musha Incident: A Reader on the Indigenous Uprising in Colonial Taiwan (2022) and co-editor of Divided Lenses (2016) and Modernism Revisited (2016).
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Intro
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction: Origins
Chapter 2: Viral Diary
Chapter 3: Translation and the Virus
Chapter 4: Attack the Title
Chapter 5: Unleash the Trolls
Chapter 6: Witch Hunt
Chapter 7: Pop Goes Fang Fang?
Chapter 8: Wuhan Diaries
Chapter 9: The Strange
Chapter 10: Reasons
Chapter 11: Lessons
Chapter 12: Coda: The Light
Bibliography
Index
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