Causeway Bay Books

Causeway Bay Books
The original bookstore at 531 Lockhart Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Traditional Chinese銅鑼灣書店
Simplified Chinese铜锣湾书店
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTóngluó Wān Shūdiàn
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingTung4lo4 Waan1*4 Syu1dim3
Showcase at street level
Stairwell with bookstore posters
The first bookstore's gate was drawn in December 2015 after the disappearance of its last staff member, Lee Bo. This site has since been abandoned.

Causeway Bay Books is an independent bookstore in Taipei, Taiwan, which until December 2015 was an upstairs bookstore located in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.[1][2] The first bookstore in Hong Kong was popular with tourists from mainland China looking for books on Chinese politics and politicians which were not available in mainland China. In late 2015, five people associated with the store disappeared, sparking international concern.[3][4][5] The first bookstore closed after the disappearance of its last staff member, Lee Bo, in December 2015. A second version of the bookstore was opened in Taipei, Taiwan in April 2020 by Lam Wing-kee, the founder of the original Hong Kong store and one of the five people who disappeared.[6]

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  6. ^ Chang, Shu-lin; Ko, Lin (12 April 2020). "Hong Kong's Causeway Bay Books to reopen in Taipei April 25". Central News Agency. Retrieved 23 April 2020.