Stand up to intimidation from China? These English-language publishers are all like, nah
We’ve written at length recently about some possible contradictions between two classic liberal values: free speech, and ever-expanding markets. We’ve also written about the especially troubling ways those contradictions have played out in the People’s… Read more »
China says Gui Minhai has been released. What does that mean?
For years, we’ve been closely following the case of Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai, apparently abducted by agents of the People’s Republic of China while on vacation in Thailand two years ago, and… Read more »
Today marks two years in prison for Gui Minhai
Two years ago today, Gui Minhai, a Swedish publisher and co-owner of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay Books, disappeared from his vacation home in Thailand. Gui was one of five men… Read more »
An activist in Hong Kong has been convicted of throwing out library books as an act of protest
According to a report by Jasmine Siu in yesterday’s South China Morning Post, Hong Kong-based activist Alvin Cheng Kam-mun has been convicted of theft and fined HK$3,000 (about $385 in US money). The… Read more »
China continues its crackdown on publishers of political gossip with two new arrests
Since November 2015, we’ve been covering the story of a wave of arrests by authorities in the People’s Republic of China of publishers and booksellers associated with Causeway Bay Books, a publishing house and… Read more »
Lam Wing-kee: Is he safe, will he move to Taiwan, and what’s Amazon got to do with it?
Recently, we’ve offered increasingly extensive coverage of the case of Lam Wing-Kee, a bookseller from Hong Kong who claims that he and four colleagues — citizens of Hong Kong, the… Read more »