These Hong Kong bookshops let Chinese readers question their country

These bookshops let Chinese readers question their country – now the doors are closing When Chen Zhu heads to Hong Kong from mainland China every month, there’s one place she always goes: Hunter Bookstore. Founded four years ago by a former councillor, the independent bookshop has earned a reputation for stocking what authorities would consider sensitive books – accounts of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy campaigners to famous allegories on authoritarianism, such as George Orwell’s Animal Farm or Hajime Isayama’s Manga series Attack on Titan. It’s a short journey from Zhu’s home in Guangzhou on China’s southern coast to the crowded street…