This Empire Must Fall Apart

This Empire Must Fall Apart is a book by Yiwu Liao. The source page records removal or withholding in public libraries amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure.

Its significance comes from how questions of race, empire, or hierarchy remain live enough to provoke official suppression. 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 public libraries amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

This Empire Must Fall Apart entered censorship debates as a book associated with history, political memory, and race. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around national security, political dissent, political sensitivity, and racial politics.

The earliest event currently captured here is 2021-05-8 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 public libraries amid the post-2020 tightening of Hong Kong's public reading infrastructure. The source page records removal or withholding in public libraries 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.

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