Life Finds a Way
‘This week we globally race past 50 million novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases. I feel lucky to be in China,” Jorah Kai Wood, a 41-year-old writer from Canada living in Chongqing Municipality in southwest China, wrote in a blogpost in early November when containment measures against COVID-19 in the city were eased. Since the epidemic hit many regions across China months ago this year, keeping a diary has become part of his daily routine, with the stories published by New World Press as Kai’s Diary: A Canadian’s COVID-19 Days in Chongqing, China, in August.
Wood settled down in Chongqing in 2014 to teach at Chongqing Foreign Language School and married a local girl named Wang Xiaolin, in 2016. He is also an assistant editor
