Alex W. Palmer has a booklet-length story in the New York
Times about the arrests of booksellers in Hong Kong, a topic covered before.
This time it is the saga of Lam Wing-kee, who was first
collared in 2015 at a customs checkpoint at the mainline.
But the story also indicates that “banned books” are
actually disappearing even in Hong Kong, as mainland publishers take
control.
There is a lot of history about publlisher Bao Pu. There is a
lot of history of the cultural revolution, when intellectuals were sent to the countryside
to become proles back in the 1960s.
The problems of censorship increase as Xingping consolidates lifetime power, and yet Xingping's official ideology, which Chinese students memorize, sounds like a hodgepodge.
I can remember a left-wing bookstore (“Make Up Your Mind”)
in Madison, NJ in the 1970s, where the owners saw the Chinese as morally pure
but not the Soviets.
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