China's new security law has cast a threatening shadow over Hong Kong's dynamic book industry, with anxious publishers combing through back ...
HONG KONG: China's new security law has cast a threatening shadow over Hong Kong's dynamic book industry, with anxious publishers combing through back catalogues for potentially"subversive" material, and looking to Taiwan as a safe haven for printing fresh titles.
Lam Wing-kee was one of five Hong Kong booksellers who vanished and then resurfaced in custody on the mainland in 2015. Public and school libraries have already started pulling books deemed inappropriate or legally risky, including those by prominent democracy activists such as Joshua Wong.Breakazine, a quarterly magazine exploring social problems in Hong Kong, cancelled publication of its latest issue and suspended production of the next one.
Liu, who runs Alone Publishing as a one-man operation, said it signalled an ironic switch for Hong Kong, which previously served as a publishing haven for Taiwanese literature when the island endured decades of authoritarian rule."It appears to me that history is repeating itself in a reversed way," Liu told AFP.
Liu, who also leads Taiwan's Independent Publishers Alliance, said books about the Hong Kong protests have not made much headway in the local market as big publishing houses with global footprints are fearful of repercussions from Beijing.
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