this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2025
2 points (100.0% liked)

China News

93 readers
10 users here now

A community for china news

founded 4 months ago
MODERATORS
rss@news.abolish.capital
Salamence@lemmy.zip
RedWizard@news.abolish.capital
2
How the fight over a Chinese bookstore heightened concerns over cultural squeeze (www.scmp.com)
submitted 3 months ago by rss@news.abolish.capital to c/china@news.abolish.capital
0 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

A recent furore over the future of a popular independent bookstore has shone a fresh spotlight on concerns that the space for public debates and cultural events in China is shrinking. The announcement that the You Xing Bookstore in Chengdu โ€“ a venue that had hosted a number of events featuring prominent Chinese and foreign speakers โ€“ would shut later this month followed the closure of a number of other bookshops as well as cancelled cultural events and film screenings across the...

From China - South China Morning Post via This RSS Feed.

no comments (yet)
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
there doesn't seem to be anything here