I have not read this book myself but it is pretty funny the kind of books that are allowed to be published in China. Books on censorship, dictatorship… I literally saw 1984 being advertised with the line “one more person reading 1984 means one more person who’s free” like who are you lying to 😭 in CHINA?!

Absolutely nothing that criticize the current leadership or reveal things they want to keep under the wrap though like the cultural genocide of the Uyghurs.

I relate to this

THANK YOU for mentioning startpage! I have not heard of them but I haven’t liked using DDG very much so I’ve begrudgingly using google in private mode (and then I always forget to switch back and forth)

How to be an antiracist, The Palestine Laboratory, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine (a translated version instead of the original text and I question my decision every day) and The Dos and Donuts of Love.

And yes I’m a huge mood reader

For bopomofo LIME IME seems promising. On its website it says it supports pinyin but I couldn’t get it to work for me :(