Book

Grass And Trees Are All Soldiers, Moving Towards A Comprehensive Politicized Society

Original title: 草木皆兵 邁向全面政治化社會 Romanized: Cao mu jie bing mai xiang quan mian zheng zhi hua she hui

Jinghui Chen

Chinese

Seeded Top-list proxy: 1,000 estimated copies sold

Grass And Trees Are All Soldiers, Moving Towards A Comprehensive Politicized Society is a book by Jinghui Chen. 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 page uses a provisional English rendering generated from the source-listed title. The original title and romanized form are preserved here because fuller English bibliographic coverage is still pending.

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About the work

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Grass And Trees Are All Soldiers, Moving Towards A Comprehensive Politicized Society is a book by Jinghui Chen. 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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Grass And Trees Are All Soldiers, Moving Towards A Comprehensive Politicized Society 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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