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This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. In 1987, when Taiwanese President Chiang Ching-kuo finally lifted martial law after nearly forty years, Taiwan’s Government Information held its first Taipei International Book Exhibition. The exhibition, which in 1987 gathered 67 publishers from eleven countries, has grown immensely since, attracting 420 [...]

This article also appears in The Atlantic, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. Last week, china’s “Re-education Through Labor” system returned to the center of public attention. Re-education through labor, or laojiao in shorthand Chinese, has long been a reviled means for police to jail Chinese citizens without due process. In 2011, laojiao was used [...]