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Finest Hour / Zui huai de nian dai : zui hao de ji zhe

Original title: 最壞的年代 : 最好的記者

Cai, Ziqiang., Anyu

Chinese

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Finest Hour / Zui huai de nian dai : zui hao de ji zhe is a book by Cai, Ziqiang., Anyu. The source page records removal or withholding in government e-book and database services amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure.

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About the work

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Finest Hour / Zui huai de nian dai : zui hao de ji zhe is a book by Cai, Ziqiang., Anyu. The source page records removal or withholding in government e-book and database services amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure.

What makes it interesting is the way a book becomes legible to officials as a political instrument rather than a neutral cultural object. As a book, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.

It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in Hong Kong. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: The source page records removal or withholding in government e-book and database services amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

Overview

Why it was banned

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Finest Hour / Zui huai de nian dai : zui hao de ji zhe entered censorship debates as a book associated with politics, public argument, and state power. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around national security, political control, and political dissent.

The earliest event currently captured here is 2023-05-17 in Hong Kong, where Hong Kong public libraries and other government-managed collections removed from government-managed collections. The source page records removal or withholding in government e-book and database services amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure. The source page records removal or withholding in government e-book and database services amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure.

This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.

This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.

Counter and critical readings

Context, rebuttals, and criticism

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Ban history

Known government actions

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Date Jurisdiction Action Reason Note
2023-05-17 Hong Kong removed from government-managed collections The source page records removal or withholding in government e-book and database services amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure. The source page records removal or withholding in government e-book and database services amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure.

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