The Bible has been withdrawn from many of China’s retail websites in an apparent move by Beijing to strictly enforce rules governing the sale of the religious text. Photo: AFP

China’s online retailers pull Bible from shelves as Beijing gets strict on sale of holy text

Searches for the religious book on JD.com, Taobao and Amazon.cn fail to produce results

Topic | Religion in China

Grace Tsoi , Xinyan Yu in Beijing, Mimi Lau

Published: 8:45am, 5 Apr, 2018

Updated: 11:52pm, 5 Apr, 2018

The Bible has been withdrawn from many of China’s retail websites in an apparent move by Beijing to strictly enforce rules governing the sale of the religious text. Photo: AFP

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Grace Tsoi

Grace is a senior multimedia producer at Inkstone. She was previously a senior producer for BBC Chinese. She is also a regular contributor to BBC News online.

Xinyan Yu

Xinyan Yu is a Senior Video Producer at the Post. She was previously a senior multimedia producer at Inkstone, after almost six years with the BBC. She writes, produces and films stories on China.

Mimi Lau

Mimi Lau covers human rights, religion and civil society in China. She spent seven years in southern China as the Post's Guangzhou Correspondent before returning to Hong Kong in 2017. Today, Mimi continues to pursue stories across the country, monitoring and reporting on key political and civil issues. She has won numerous awards for her work.