{"id":26193,"date":"2025-06-30T04:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26193\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T04:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T04:07:10","slug":"chinese-publishing-thrives-in-tokyo-as-hong-kong-freedom-narrows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/26193\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese publishing thrives in Tokyo as Hong Kong freedom narrows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Hong Hong&#8217;s relative freedom once made it a center for publishing and selling books that were considered &#8220;sensitive&#8221; or banned in mainland China. But with dissent severely curtailed under the national security law imposed exactly five years ago Monday, another hub of Chinese-language publication is emerging: Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">While democratic and Mandarin-speaking Taiwan remains a natural alternative, a <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Spotlight\/Chinese-in-Japan\/Chain-of-Chinese-migration-for-education-thrives-in-Japan\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"noopener\">rapid increase<\/a> in immigrants and visitors is turning Tokyo into a new hub for Chinese-language literature and scholarship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO &#8212; Hong Hong&#8217;s relative freedom once made it a center for publishing and selling books that were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,22165,171,22196,23044,23045,23046,5553,23043,10855,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-26193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-chinese","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-freedom","12":"tag-hong","13":"tag-kong","14":"tag-narrows","15":"tag-publishing","16":"tag-thrives","17":"tag-tokyo","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114770348875606072","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}