{"id":25182,"date":"2020-11-28T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T03:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/28\/encrypted-apps-and-false-names-new-taiwan-book-club-takes-no-chances"},"modified":"2020-11-28T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T03:27:18","slug":"encrypted-apps-and-false-names-new-taiwan-book-club-takes-no-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25182","title":{"rendered":"Encrypted apps and false names: new Taiwan book club takes no chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid Beijing\u2019s crackdown on Hong Kong, publisher says joining clubs to discuss free speech and democracy has again become an act of resistance <\/p>\n<p>In the early 1950s in Taiwan, 19-year-old Tsai Kun-lin was arrested and jailed after joining a book club. The young man spent more than a decade on Green Island, building the prison that held him as a political enemy of the authoritarian rulers who would hold Taiwan under martial law until 1987.<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, a 90-year-old Tsai is living in Taiwan\u2019s thriving democracy, but says a book club has once again become an act of resistance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/28\/encrypted-apps-and-false-names-new-taiwan-book-club-takes-no-chances\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid Beijing\u2019s crackdown on Hong Kong, publisher says joining clubs to discuss free speech and democracy has again become an act of resistance In the early 1950s in Taiwan, 19-year-old Tsai Kun-lin was arrested and jailed after joining a book club. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,50,71,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-china","category-culture","category-taiwan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25183,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25182\/revisions\/25183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}