Hong Kong Libraries
Hong Kong public libraries purge 29 titles about the Tiananmen Massacre from shelves: Reports
Hong Kong public libraries have removed 29 out of 149 books about the Tiananmen Massacre from their shelves in the past 12 years, media reports said.
Of the 120 titles still stocked, just 26 are displayed on the shelves and immediately available for borrowing.
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The remaining 94 are only available on request, are stored in off-site book reserves, or are housed in reference sections where they can be read but not borrowed, reports Hong Kong Free Press.
In June 2009, the Home Affairs Bureau made public a spreadsheet of 149 titles about the 1989 June 4 massacre that were in Hong Kong’s public libraries at the time, with a total of 1,162 copies available for lending or reference, the newspaper reported.
By inputting each title into the current online catalogue for public libraries, HKFP found that 29 of the titles — 26 in Chinese and three in English — were no longer available as of Nov 9.
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