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We tried to figure out what books Hong Kong booksellers aren’t allowed to sell and it turns out there’s no real list.
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Gui Minhai, a citizen of Sweden and the co-owner of the publishing business Mighty Current and the Causeway Bay Bookstore, went missing in Thailand in late 2015, reappeared on Chinese state TV for a primetime confession last month, and is now in detention on the mainland. He was joined by Lui Por, Cheung Chi-ping and Lam Wing-kee on Sunday.
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The closest the government has come to naming a banned book was some "problematic maps" that were banned back in 2011. The only time that comes to mind was in 2014, when Reuters reported that books of eight prestigious Chinese authors were banned — Xinhua refuted the story quickly and claimed that the report was false.
Even though there's no official list, reports have documented at least one other bookstore's staffers have been told to pull "political sensitive" books off the shelves, while some stores hide the books unless customers ask for them specifically.
Basically, everybody is confused over how to determine what kinds of books are "banned" books, including outspoken and influential Hong Kong writer and TV culture critic Leung Man-tao. "Does China have any regulation or law defining 'banned' book? The answer is no," he wrote in a recent column. Those publications with official authorization are legal books, then those without the government's sign-off qualify as "illegal" publications, he explained.
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"The Regulation on the Administration of Publication," as the Bureau's document is titled, indicates that ten kinds of publications aren't allowed, including those "endangering the unity of the nation" (although it's unclear what kinds of publication would endanger the unity of the nation), "propagating cults" (without explain kinds of religions or activities are defined as a "cult"), and those "insulting or slandering others."
One of the upcoming books the bookstore is preparing to publish is about reportedly centered around secrets in Xi's personal life, which could potentially violate the law. But the punishment for breaking the customs' regulation in itself isn't defined.
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Joy is our most powerful counternarrative and has the capacity to decolonize imaginations.
Black joy invites our sadness and struggle into the conversation of happiness, not as an achievement of some utopic state but as a process of becoming intimately present with moments. We do not experience life in terms of "good" or "bad" but in terms of justice or injustice. Freedom or slavery. Joy is a methodology of the oppressed and a liberating force to be reckoned with.
I encourage a discussion of joy and how we come to experience it. Black joy is the courage to heal. Here is a list poem that serves as an offering:
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Aja Monet is an internationally established poet, performer, singer, songwriter, educator, and human rights advocate. She has two books of poetry; Inner-City Chants and Cyborg Cyphers. Visit her site, follow her on Twitter @aja_monet, and see more of her performance poetry here.
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“Leonardo Decaprico Finally Wins His Award And It Pounds Him In The Butt” is the book no one asked for, but here it is anyway.
It won’t even matter to you that they don’t have butter beer.
The place has a warm, minimalist aesthetic: wooden chairs, a bar, and tables perfect for enjoying the coffee prepared by Natalia Montoya, the café's barista and fan of the Harry Potter saga.
She is the owner of Félix Felicis & Co., along with Marcelo Ferrán, Pat Hryb, and Juan Pablo Valencia. The café is located at José Antonio Cabrera 5002 (at the corner of Serrano), and will attract the attention of anyone addicted to the Potter Universe.
