Simon Wang

Simon Wang is a Sydney-based poet and scholar. He received his PhD on Asian Studies from ANU and is currently working with Western Sydney University on a writing project on the poetics of flowing water.

All essays by Simon Wang

Essay: Wu QiSimon Wangon life in lockdown

January 2020: Learn to Swim Drowning

My first response to COVID-19 was not to go back home. Home for me is in the Hunan province in the south of China, next to Hubei. It had been a difficult decision to make. The virus coincided with the Chinese New Year; it was like a bomb thrown into a mine field. But I also knew that it was the time when I was most needed at home.
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