Detention of publisher Li Yanhe in China for ‘endangering national security’ has sent chills through island’s literary community
Often, there is little to no detail of what those accused of endangering national security are supposed to have done. For Li, many assumed it relates to Gusa’s publishing of titles critical of the Chinese Communist party or discussing topics such as the Tiananmen Square massacre, human rights abuses of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, and party corruption.
who were “disappeared” from various global locations in 2015. One, Gui Minhai, remains in a Chinese jail serving a 10-year sentence on espionage charges. Another, Lam Wing-kee, reopened Causeway Bay Books in Taipei after he skipped bail and fled Hong Kong. Li was born in China and worked for the Shanghai Literature & Art Publishing House, but in 2009 he moved to Taiwan, where he married, started a family, and launched Gusa Publishing. He had applied for citizenship in the Republic of China , a process that required the Chinese national to return home and cancel his household registration.
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