People's Bookshop, the last bookshop in Hong Kong that sells books banned under the Communist Party of China, was recently shut down, a move that leaves people pondering over the apparent uncertain future of Hong Kong's heaving independent publishing industry. The bookshop, located in Hong Kong's Causeway Bay district, is known as the city's last and only source of "literary contraband," according to The Guardian on Oct. 31. Many locals believe that the bookshop was closed by bookseller Paul Tang following government pressure. "[Hong Kong] was once the place where mainland readers came looking for the truth," a frequent visitor of the bookshop, unidentified, was quoted as sayin...
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