Even time travel can’t unravel love Anthology of inclusive tales of people through time looking for one another and for ways for the world to be better. Time-travel is a way for writers to play with history and imagine different futures – for better, or worse. When romance is thrown ... more >
WRITING ON THE WALL: DISAPPEARED BOOKSELLERS AND FREE EXPRESSION IN HONG KONG – PEN America has weighed in on the relationship between China and Hong Kong publishing, and in particular the recent case of the disappearing booksellers. The report “examines the wide-reaching impact for Hong Kong as an international publishing center ... more >
Missing Hong Kong bookseller Lee Po returns home from mainland China after disappearing last December – Missing for upward of five months, Cheung Chi-ping, Lui Por, and, most recently, Lee Po, have returned to Hong Kong. Upon his return, Po asked Hong Kong police to end their investigation into his disappearance, claiming ... more >
Daughter of ‘disappeared’ Hong Kong book publisher won’t be silent – For the first year she can remember, Gui Minhai’s daughter, Angela Gui, did not get a call from her father on her birthday. Gui is one of the five missing Hong Kong publishers — he is the naturalized Swedish citizen who made ... more >
Hearst and Condé Nast Join Forces to Form PubWorx, a Shared Services Firm – So with magazine subscriptions going for alike $5 a pop, Condé Nast and Hearst are going into business together to create magazines on a contract basis for other companies. Because nothing says reinvention of the magazine business ... more >
The Hong Kong Bookseller Who’s Keeping ‘Banned’ Books On His Shelves – Despite the disappearance (and in a couple of cases, reappearance in mainland police custody) of five bookseller/publishers, some Hong Kong booksellers, including People’s Bookstore owner Peter Tang, are keeping mainland-banned titles on their shelves. It appears to be publishers ... more >