‘I’ll never publish banned books again’: Hong Kong bookseller Lee Po quits book trade upon return to city
Mighty Current and Causeway Bay Books associate wants to start afresh
The Causeway Bay bookseller whose disappearance last year set off a storm over Hong Kong’s autonomy said yesterday he was putting the past behind him, quitting the business, and making a fresh start after returning home on Thursday.
Then, without answering lingering questions about the circumstances under which he vanished, Lee Po returned to the mainland, accompanied by an unidentified man in a vehicle with cross-border licence plates.
Mobbed by the media outside his North Point home yesterday morning, Lee pleaded for space.
“I have already said what I wanted to say. Today I just want to tell everyone that I hope you can leave me and my family alone. Don’t push me that much,” he said, smiling the whole time.
Missing Hong Kong bookseller Lee Po returns home from mainland China after disappearing last December
“I want to forget the past and start afresh. I am starting another page in my life.”
He said he was allowed to travel freely between Hong Kong and the mainland, and was crossing the border again for tomb sweeping with his wife, Sophie Choi Ka-ping, in the next few days.