Xi’s Most Feared Bookseller Is Dead—The Secret of His 8 Women

Xi’s Most Feared Bookseller Is Dead—The Secret of His 8 Women

China Insider TV
China Insider TV
499 Video Views·Jul 15, 2026  #LamWing #xijinping #powerstruggle

On July 2, Lam Wing-kee, founder of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay Books, died at a hospital in Taipei.
He had once disappeared for eight months, secretly detained by China’s central security forces. Confined under round-the-clock surveillance in a 90-square-meter room, he even contemplated taking his own life—all because of a book.
Lam’s life, and the fate of Causeway Bay Books, offer a stark reflection of Xi Jinping’s authoritarian rule. So what, exactly, had Lam done to offend the “Emperor”?
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00:00 - Intro
00:32 - The Eight-Month Abduction That Shocked the World
03:54 - Interrogated 30 Times a Day—Did He Hold Sensitive “Secrets”?
06:14 - A Book—or a Test of Freedom and Internal Power Struggles?
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