Red Lines Drawn Across Hong Kong's Bookshelves In recent years, a worrying trend has emerged in Hong Kong: the closure of independent bookshops.
Have a Nice Stay, one such shop, will shut its doors on August 30 due to financial losses and "hard to grasp red lines.
" This development raises serious concerns about the erosion of intellectual freedom in the territory. The phrase "red lines" is all too familiar in Hong Kong's cultural landscape.