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Party expels readers of forbidden books

Helen Davidson, Chi-hui Lin

When Lam Wing-kee ran his bookshop in Hong Kong, filled with controversial and political titles banned in mainland China, many of his customers were Chinese Communist party officials. Back then, in the early years of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s reign, and before Lam was detained by Chinese authorities for his work, the officials would load up boxes of books on CCP politics, Chinese economics and scandal, often taking them back over the border. “CCP officials would look for books about what’s going on in China, about changes in the top rank officials, who gets the most power, changes in the power and the struggle between them, etcetera,” Lam said, suggesting officials were often buying the books to learn about what was going on inside their own party. “Some of my…

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Guardian Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, 25 October 2024

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