Book

Xin "si Ren Bang" He "tai Shang Huang" : Mei You Jie Su De Quan Dou

Original title: 新"四人幫"和"太上皇" : 沒有結束的權鬥 Romanized: Xin "si ren bang" he "tai shang huang" : mei you jie su de quan dou

Zichang Xie

Chinese

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Xin "si Ren Bang" He "tai Shang Huang" : Mei You Jie Su De Quan Dou is a book by Zichang Xie. 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 currently uses the source-listed romanized form because a stable English bibliographic rendering has not yet been attached to the record. The original title is preserved here for later cleanup.

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About the work

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Xin "si Ren Bang" He "tai Shang Huang" : Mei You Jie Su De Quan Dou is a book by Zichang Xie. 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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Xin "si Ren Bang" He "tai Shang Huang" : Mei You Jie Su De Quan Dou 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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