A Chinese International Student Looks Back On 4 Months of Covid-19 All images from the author. When I first heard about a mysterious pneumonia emerging in Wuhan at the end of December, I shrugged off the inkling that this might grow into a Sars-like pandemic. China’s experience from 2002 would have contained the spread in no time. As I sat on the plane by Xiao Zibang May 20, 2020