It is nearly three years since Li Wenliang posted his last message on Weibo before he died from covid-19. Yet his account still hums with life
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskAs the disease, now freed from China’s “zero-covid” restraints, sweeps the country, @xiaolwl is a shrine that draws an endless stream of visitors. Every three or four minutes someone adds a comment on his parting words. “Older brother Liang, recently I’ve been reading Camus’s ‘The Plague’,” wrote one on January 10th, hinting at the calamity now unfolding.
When Li died, his Weibo account became a lightning rod for public discontent. It was flooded with hundreds of thousands of messages of condolence, and sympathy for the injustice he had suffered. The numbers soon subsided, but people kept on posting comments on Li’s last message. By mid-2020 the counter began showing “1m+”. At that point Weibo stops updating the figure. But researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai, Zhou Baohua and Zhong Yuan, tallied more than 1.
But instead of becoming a forum for dissent, Li’s Weibo account took on a different hue: as a “wailing wall”, as Chinese media described it. Visitors often posted messages about their daily tribulations. They asked Li for help in their love lives and their exams. Some simply bade him good morning or good night. Among emoticons they used was one of a fried chicken leg. Li loved fried chicken.
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