‘Pushing boundaries’: The rise of Samizdat publishing in Vietnam

Liberal Publishing House publishes and distributes books Vietnam’s government does not wants its citizens to read.

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Vietnam's publishing industry is tightly controlled by the government [File: Kham/Reuters]Vietnam’s publishing industry is tightly controlled by the government [File: Kham/Reuters]

Hanoi, Vietnam – Inside a cramped room in a secret – and temporary – location in northern Vietnam, a printer whirs to life, spitting out sheets of paper covered in text.

Neat piles are stacked on nearby tables and a man wearing an air respirator places one of them into a machine that cuts and binds the pages to a cover.

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