The Case of the Missing Hong Kong Book Publishers

Hong Kong police beneath missing-person notices for the local publishers Gui Minhai and Yau Wentian, whose books angered China.
Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY ANTHONY WALLACE / AFP / Getty

When a politically problematic figure disappears—or is disappeared—in China, a dark uneasiness falls, though usually accompanied by a glum sense of the inevitable. This is the cost of living within an authoritarian regime with diminishing patience for deviance. For…

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The Case of the Missing Hong Kong Book Publishers