{"id":46655,"date":"2022-07-22T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T04:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/hong-kong-publishers-excluded-from-book-fair-over-politically-sensitive-material"},"modified":"2022-07-22T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T04:39:34","slug":"hong-kong-publishers-excluded-from-book-fair-over-politically-sensitive-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46655","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong publishers excluded from book fair over politically sensitive material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three booksellers say they were banned from the annual jamboree as the city embarks on \u2018new form of censorship\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong publishers have decried a \u201cnew form of censorship\u201d after vendors selling books deemed politically sensitive were allegedly excluded from the industry\u2019s traditional annual trade fair. <\/p>\n<p>With hundreds of exhibitors spread over the city\u2019s major exhibition facility, the seven-day event which began this week once drew more than 1 million visitors and was a staple business opportunity for the sector.<\/p>\n<p>But this year publishers that showcased books last year about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/12\/hong-kong-unprecedented-violence-police-shooting-fire-tear-gas\">the protests that swept the city in 2019<\/a> have been banned from the book fair, without explanation.<\/p>\n<p>One was Hillway Culture, while at least two other publishers, Humming Publishing and Kind Of Culture, also had applications turned down.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/22\/hong-kong-publishers-excluded-from-book-fair-over-politically-sensitive-material\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three booksellers say they were banned from the annual jamboree as the city embarks on \u2018new form of censorship\u2019Hong Kong publishers have decried a \u201cnew form of censorship\u201d after vendors selling books deemed politically sensitive were allegedly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3188,"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":[511,50,48,1642],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-publishing"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46655","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\/3188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46656,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46655\/revisions\/46656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}