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16 books in public libraries are suspected of being removed from the shelves: "Free Hong Kong", two issues of "Breakazine!", etc.

2021-05-31T20:06:39.070Z


The National Security Law of Minato District has been implemented for nearly a year. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department removed many books on the grounds of reviewing the contents of books last year. Following the removal of 9 books by 6 authors earlier this month, another 16 books are now available. Can't be in the library


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Author: Zheng Qiuling

2021-05-29 13:26

Last update date: 2021-05-29 13:27

The National Security Law of Minato District has been implemented for nearly a year. The Leisure and Cultural Services Department removed many books on the grounds of reviewing the contents of books last year. Following the removal of 9 books by 6 authors earlier this month, another 16 books are now available. Cannot be found in the library collections, including political commentator Zhong Zukang’s "Don’t be a Chinese in my next life", senior engineer Li Guangde’s "Release Hong Kong", former Legislative Council member Huang Yumin’s "Is it hard to argue", and the quarterly bibliography "Breakazine" ! "Two periodicals and so on.

"Hong Kong 01" is inquiring with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

"Toutiao.com" reported today (29th) that the Leisure and Cultural Services Department immediately removed 16 books on Thursday (27th) for reviewing whether it violated the "National Security Law".

"Hong Kong 01" is inquiring with the Leisure and Cultural Services Department.

The reporter searched the library website this morning (29th) and found that 16 books have been shown as "no matching search results", and other books by the relevant authors are still listed for borrowing, such as Peng Zhiming's "Da Heng Xi" 1 and 3 Still available for lending; "Breakazine!" shows 59 search results, which are still placed on the shelves of the library, but the 59th and 60th issues are no longer searchable. They are named "Tear of Hong Kong" and "The Courage Is Never Diminished-In the Age of Totalitarianism" Confronting Fear” as the theme.

In addition, as long as the word "civil disobedience" is involved, there is no record of any books.

In July last year, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department removed 9 books from the public library on the grounds of reviewing whether the contents of the books would violate the "Hong Kong National Security Act", including six books on "Hong Kong City State" and "Hong Kong City State" written by scholar Chen Yun. On 2", "Boundlessness", "Hong Kong Defence", "On the Sovereignty of the City State" and "On the Adherents of Hong Kong"; former Hong Kong Secretary General Huang Zhifeng's "I am not a hero" and "I am not a thin road: Ten Before and After Eighth; Former Legislative Council Member Chen Shuzhuang's "Walking, Eating and Fighting".

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As of the beginning of this month, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department confirmed that there were 9 more books involving 6 authors whose content may violate the National Security Law, so the borrowing service was suspended, including the "Hong Kong Ethnic Theory" compiled by the Hong Kong University Student Union Academy; Ho Chun-jen, a former Legislative Council member "I Declare War on Hegemony"; "Chen Shuzhuang Sensitive Zone" by former Legislative Council member Chen Shuzhuang; "The Humble Chinese" and "Nazi China" by Chinese American writer Yu Jie; and "History of the Hong Kong Civil Resistance Movement" by current affairs commentator Lin Kuangzheng -An Analysis of Thirty Years of Frustration, "The History of Hong Kong's Civil Resistance Movement II: China-Hong Kong Showdown" and "Radical: A History of Hong Kong's Progressive Democracy Movement"; and "This Empire Must Divide" by the exiled German Chinese author Liao Yiwu

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