As China Cracks Down on Bookstores at Home, Chinese-language Booksellers Are Flourishing Overseas

AP
11:41 JST,
November 19, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) — Yu Miao smiles as he stands among the 10,000 books crowded on rows of bamboo shelves in his newly reopened bookstore. It’s in Washington’s vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood, far from its last location in Shanghai, where the Chinese government forced him out of business...
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