{"id":68475,"date":"2024-12-24T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/24\/a-sense-of-freedom-chinas-small-bookshops-relocate-across-the-world"},"modified":"2024-12-24T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T07:45:19","slug":"a-sense-of-freedom-chinas-small-bookshops-relocate-across-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68475","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A sense of freedom\u2019: China\u2019s small bookshops relocate across the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As stores that were spaces for open discussion have been forced to close, new ventures spring up overseas<\/p>\n<p>On 24 November, exactly two years after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/26\/covid-lockdown-protests-break-out-in-western-china-after-deadly-fire\">fire in an apartment building <\/a>in Xinjiang killed 10 people and sparked a wave of historic protests across China, two dozen people gathered in a small bookshop in the Netherlands to reflect on the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen anger becomes infectious, \/ when words are seen to be dangerous, \/ leave me blank, please!\u201d Hongwei Bao, a professor at the University of Nottingham, read to the small, predominantly Asian audience.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/24\/a-sense-of-freedom-chinas-small-bookshops-relocate-across-the-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As stores that were spaces for open discussion have been forced to close, new ventures spring up overseasOn 24 November, exactly two years after a fire in an apartment building in Xinjiang killed 10 people and sparked a wave of historic protests across&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,511,458,50,71,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-censorship","category-china","category-culture","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68475","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68489,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68475\/revisions\/68489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}