Wuhan

City in China.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
Breakneck	Dan Wang	backdrop	Officials suppressed news of the virus to protect a political meeting and Lunar New Year; Li Wenliang died there and a hospital was built in eleven days.

Breakneck — Dan Wang (2025)

Source: Readwise highlight

Wuhan officials refused to call off a community feast that attracted a hundred thousand people only six miles away from the Huanan Seafood Market, where the coronavirus was already circulating.

• Role: backdrop
• In the book: Officials suppressed news of the virus to protect a political meeting and Lunar New Year; Li Wenliang died there and a hospital was built in eleven days. The author watched from Beijing.
• Why it matters: It is the origin point of the pandemic story and the ‘battleground’ later invoked for Shanghai, but the author is not there.