{"id":140096,"date":"2025-11-09T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140096"},"modified":"2025-11-09T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:00:16","slug":"how-the-fight-over-a-chinese-bookstore-heightened-concerns-over-cultural-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140096","title":{"rendered":"How the fight over a Chinese bookstore heightened concerns over cultural squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA recent furore over the future of a popular independent bookstore has shone a fresh spotlight on concerns that the space for public debates and cultural events in China is shrinking.<br \/>\nThe announcement that the You Xing Bookstore in Chengdu \u2013 a venue that had hosted a number of events featuring prominent Chinese and foreign speakers \u2013 would shut later this month followed the closure of a number of other bookshops as well as cancelled cultural events and film screenings across the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3332045\/how-fight-chinese-bookstores-future-heightened-concerns-over-cultural-squeeze?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA recent furore over the future of a popular independent bookstore has shone a fresh spotlight on concerns that the space for public debates&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}