The Bookshop
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| Initial release | Spain |
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| Directors | Isabel Coixet |
| Narrated by | Julie Christie |
| Adapted from | The Bookshop |
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| ID | 1171601 |
About The Bookshop
Florence Green, a free-spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop -- the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough, England. But this mini social revolution soon brings her fierce enemies: she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers and also crosses Mrs. Gamart, Harborough's vengeful, embittered alpha female who is a wannabe doyenne of the local arts scene. …
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Lam Wing-kee: HK bookseller, defied China opened up shop in Taiwan
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Lam Wing-kee: HK bookseller, defied China opened up shop in Taiwan
Mr Lam, the small bookstore was Packed with journalists and supporters at the opening
Hong Kong -book dealer who defied the mainland of China has its bookstore in Taiwan .
Lam Wing-kee was taken to be one of five booksellers in the year 2015 after the sale of material critical of the political elite in China mainland.
He fled to Taiwan in the past year, for fear that he would be sent Back To China under Hong Kong proposed to the extradition bill.
authorities say The re-opening of the bookstore is a symbol of democracy and freedom in Taiwan .
"The re-opening is very meaningful," Mr Lam told reporters that in the new store in the capital city of Taipei.
"Causeway Bay books was destroyed, by China , by violent means. The re-opening proves Taiwan is a country with freedom and democracy, and we still have The Right to read books," he added.
Mr Lam had said he wanted to open a low-key, because of the Covid-19, but his small bookstore on the 10th floor of a building in a popular business district of Taipei, was Packed with journalists and supporters, as well as flowers and a message of Taiwan 's President, Tsai Ing-wen, reports The Bbc 's Cindy Sui in Taipei.
He called those who thought on Hong Kong 's roads in the Last Year , and who, that their safety was in danger to Taiwan and continue in their rebellion from the outside. He Said , through the opening of his bookstore, he was a rebel, too.
In 2015, Mr Lam, was arrested during a visit to China , and held for More Than 400 Days .
He was one of a number of bookstore owners and employees, disappeared and were later arrested by the Chinese authorities, as part of a crackdown on bookshops in the former British colony, sold the publications critical of China 's leaders.
His case fueled fears of China 's increasing attacks on Hong Kong 's freedoms, the fears that led to the months-long mass protests in Hong Kong Last Year .
months later, he fled to Taiwan and Hong Kong as a law that would have allowed extradition to Mainland China .
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Why has Mr Lam leave Hong Kong ?In June 2016, newly returned to Hong Kong , he told journalists that he has been released under the condition that he retrieve a hard drive filled with The Names of people, especially mainland Chinese, who had bought books from his publishing house.
But He Said he had no intention of handing over the data, and he detailed his captivity - in solitary confinement under 24-hour surveillance, he thought of suicide.
A Confession broadcast on Chinese television was, He Said ,
China , said Mr. had broken Lam, the conditions of his release.
When Hong Kong 's political leader, Carrie Lam , has proposed a new law that would allow the extradition to the people's Republic of China , Mr. Lam was afraid he would be "top of The List ".
He left Hong Kong , Taiwan - an effectively independent nation is of the opinion that China is waiting for a renegade province on the reunification.
china, taiwan, hong kong
Source of news: bbc.com
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