‘A sense of freedom’: China’s small bookshops relocate across the world

As stores that were spaces for open discussion have been forced to close, new ventures spring up overseas

On 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 China, two dozen people gathered in a small bookshop in the Netherlands to reflect on the event.

“When anger becomes infectious, / when words are seen to be dangerous, / leave me blank, please!” Hongwei Bao, an associate professor at the University of Nottingham, read to the small, predominantly Asian audience.

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