NPR - A bookstore that was forced to close its Shanghai branch due to China's speech restrictions has reopened in Washington, D.C. Its owner, Yu Miao, revived the bookshop, now named JF Books, as a place where people can sit and read together and also have open discussions about politics, human rights and more in the diaspora community. Yu is part of a growing wave of people who have left China amid Xi Jinping's crackdown on free speech and the economic challenges following the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's a look inside JF Books, with its shelves of Chinese-language volumes and English titles with a focus on Chinese and Asian topics.
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