Allen & Unwin’s recent decision to drop Clive Hamilton’s book on Chinese Communist Party influence in Australia — citing fears of ‘possible action’ from Beijing — may be a publishing first.
Other publishers – such as Springer Nature and Cambridge University Press — have caved into Communist Party requests to censor ‘politically sensitive’ material available in China, purging references to Tiananmen Square, the Cultural Revolution, and Taiwan and Tibet.
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