That topic, and others that are sensitive to the central government in Beijing, are deemed too “harmful” for public access.
— We should not recommend any books that are illegal, that violate copyright, or that contain harmful ideas, says Hong Kong leader John Lee, who was handpicked to his office by China’s party government.
A well-known satirist in Hong Kong was recently stopped from being published in one of the metropolitan region’s daily newspapers and his books were removed from the libraries at the same time. In connection with that, journalists began to search for potentially sensitive books in the libraries – and discovered that many were missing. Among other things, it concerns books that give an account of the bloody massacre of peaceful demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989, which the autocratic Communist Party does not want to know about.
Hong Kong was long a largely self-governing metropolitan region in China, but in recent years the government in Beijing has taken control of the political system and judiciary, and severely restricted freedom of expression.