Confidence Comes from Effectiveness: A Foreigner's Wuhan Diary, a book written by Yang Hang, a Lebanese PhD candidate, is recently published in China. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
A chronicle of a Lebanese student's life during quarantine at the peak of the pandemic earlier this year in Wuhan, Hubei province, gives a foreigner's perspective on China's response to the outbreak.
Adham Sayed, who adopted the Chinese name Yang Hang, is the author of Confidence Comes from Effectiveness: A Foreigner's Wuhan Diary, which was published recently. He chose to remain in Wuhan rather than flee to Lebanon after the coronavirus struck. He answered questions from netizens worldwide, and also wrote articles every day online.
Yang is a PhD candidate at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. In the book, he recounts for the world his observations of what happened.
In a streamed interview with OTV in Lebanon, Yang reported to people in his country, "We are good in China."
In July, an Arabic version of the book was released in Lebanon, with Chinese and English versions published in China in December.
Yang has returned to the university campus to learn Chinese and complete work on his doctoral thesis.
"I hope to contribute more to what the country proposes — building a community with a shared future for mankind — after graduation," Yang said.
Zhou Jiaxin contributed to the story.
