(Nov 2025) High in the hills overlooking Taipei, in a nondescript office tucked within one of the many buildings at the National Chengchi University, sits an unassuming collection of a few hundred Vietnamese-language books. There’s no sign to announce it or posters to promote it. It’s not even a formal library—just a small collection. But it’s one of the world’s most extensive collections of Vietnamese banned books.
“I call it the Luật Khoa Library,” says Trịnh Hữu Long, gesturing at the row of shelves behind him with pride. Long is a journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of Luật Khoa tạp chí (Law Magazine). “I want this to be the largest collection of Vietnam’s banned books in the world.”
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