Lam Wing-kee, a bookseller in Hong Kong whose abduction and imprisonment by Chinese authorities, forced confession to selling forbidden books and subsequent public stand against his detention made him an international cause célèbre, died on July 2 in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan. He was 70.

香港书商林荣基曾遭中国当局绑架和监禁，被迫承认出售禁书，随后他公开反对这种拘留行为，这使他成为国际瞩目的焦点。7月2日，他在台湾首都台北去世，享年70岁。

Mr. Lam’s death in a hospital, from lung cancer, was announced by the ministry of culture in Taiwan, where Mr. Lam had been living in exile since 2019.

自2019年以来，林荣基一直流亡台湾。他在医院因肺癌去世的消息由台湾文化部对外宣布。

For two decades, Mr. Lam’s celebrated Hong Kong storefront, Causeway Bay Bookstore, specialized in titles that visitors from mainland China craved but could never hope to obtain where they lived: cheaply produced, racy, often salacious accounts of the private lives of top Communist Party officials, including President Xi Jinping, as well as provocative critiques of mainland rule.

二十年来，林荣基在香港经营的著名书店“铜锣湾书店”专门出售中国大陆游客梦寐以求却在大陆无从获得的书籍：它们制作粗糙、内容猎奇，往往涉及包括国家主席习近平在内的中共高层官员私生活的露骨描述，以及对大陆统治的挑衅性批评。

In late 2015, Mr. Lam was one of five booksellers kidnapped by Chinese officials, and he eventually spoke out, denouncing the five months he had spent in solitary confinement merely for selling books that authorities on the mainland wanted suppressed.

2015年底，林荣基是被中国官员绑架的五名书商之一。他最终站出来发声，控诉自己只是因为出售大陆当局想要查禁的书籍，就被单独监禁了五个月。

In all, he spent eight months in custody, released only after agreeing to provide authorities with information on customers and authors. Back in Hong Kong, though, Mr. Lam refused to cooperate.

他总共被关押了八个月，直到同意向当局提供有关客户和作者的信息后才获释。然而，回到香港后，林荣基拒绝配合。

His case came to be seen by fellow Hong Kong citizens as symbolic of the city’s fast-eroding liberties under Chinese rule. There were demonstrations during his detention, and thousands took to the streets again after his release in a show of support after he gave a surprise news conference in June 2016.

他的案件被香港市民视为该市的自由在中国治下迅速遭到侵蚀的象征。在他被羁押期间，曾发生过示威游行；2016年6月他举行了一场出人意料的新闻发布会后，又有数千市民再次走上街头以示支持。

2016年，林荣基的支持者呼吁释放其他书商。

Chinese officials had expected him to return to the mainland, bearing a computer hard drive with customer names. Instead, he summoned Hong Kong reporters and described being kidnapped at a Chinese border crossing in October 2015, blindfolded and handcuffed, and kept in a 200-square-foot room under constant guard for months, to be charged with “illegal sales of books.”

中国官员原本期望他带着装有客户名单的电脑硬盘返回大陆。然而，他召集了香港记者，描述了自己于2015年10月在一个中国边境口岸被绑架的经过——他被蒙住双眼、戴上手铐，被关押在一个不到20平米的房间里，几个月来一直受到严密监视，罪名是“非法销售书籍”。

The officials, he said, then scripted a “confession,” making him record it over and over until they were satisfied, and forced him to read it on state television in February 2016.

他说，官员们随后编写了一份“供词”，让他一遍又一遍地录音直到他们满意为止，并迫使他于2016年2月在国家电视台上宣读这份供词。

Four months later, defiant in front of journalists, Mr. Lam — “thin and wiry, with an unruly pouf of side-swept gray hair and a wisp of mustache,” as Alex W. Palmer later described him in The New York Times Magazine — proclaimed his city’s independent spirit.

四个月后，林荣基在记者面前表现出不屈服的态度，亚历克斯·帕尔默后来在《纽约时报杂志》中描述他“身材瘦削结实，留着一头凌乱的偏分灰发和一抹小胡子”，他宣示了香港这座城市的独立精神。

“I want to tell the whole world: Hong Kongers will not bow down to brute force,” Mr. Lam said.

“我想告诉全世界：香港人绝不会向强权屈服，”林荣基说。

2017年，林荣基在香港铜锣湾书店原址外。

In 2014, Mr. Lam had sold his bookstore to one of the most successful of the forbidden-book publishers, Mighty Current Media, and he remained as manager. It was three of Mighty Current’s employees and one of its owners, Gui Minhai, who were swept up along with Mr. Lam late the next year. Mr. Gui remains in custody in China.

2014年，林荣基将他的书店卖给了最成功的禁书出版商之一巨流传媒，并继续担任经理。次年年底，与林荣基一起被抓捕的正是巨流传媒的三名员工及老板之一桂民海。桂民海目前仍被关押在中国。

For years before his abduction, Mr. Lam had made furtive trips to the mainland with his books, often using false covers and always managing to stay one step ahead of officials. Then, on Oct. 24, 2015, he was bringing books across the border at Shenzhen, the port city where his girlfriend also lived, when security officials snatched him.

在被绑架之前的几年里，林荣基曾多次秘密携带书籍前往大陆，通常使用伪装的封面，并且总能设法领先官员一步。然而，在2015年10月24日，当他带着书在深圳（他女友也居住在这个港口城市）越过边境时，安全官员抓走了他。

The next months were a nightmare. He didn’t know where he was being held. He was repeatedly interrogated. He battled despair.

接下来的几个月如同一场噩梦。他不知道自己被关押在何处，屡遭审讯，与绝望作斗争。

“You have a complete disconnection from the outside world,” he told Mr. Palmer of The Times Magazine in 2018. “You don’t know what will happen. They can do anything to you.”

“你和外界完全隔绝了，”他在2018年告诉《纽约时报杂志》的帕尔默。“你不知道会发生什么。他们可以对你为所欲为。”

2016年，林荣基在香港的一场新闻发布会上表示：“我想告诉全世界：香港人绝不会向强权低头。”

Lam Wing-kee was born in Hong Kong on Dec. 16, 1955, and attended Heung To Middle School there. His parents had moved from the mainland to Hong Kong, then a British colony, about a decade earlier, during China’s civil war, according to Chan Kin-man, the president of the Taiwan Society for Hong Kong Studies, who knew Mr. Lam.

林荣基于1955年12月16日出生于香港，曾就读于当地的香岛中学。据认识林荣基的台湾香港研究学会理事长陈健民称，大约在他出生10年前的国共内战期间，林荣基的父母从大陆移居到当时还是英国殖民地的香港。

From 1985 to 1989, Mr. Lam worked in the book distribution department at the Chung Hwa Book Company, funded by the Chinese. After the Chinese government’s crackdown on pro-democracy student demonstrators in Beijing‘s Tiananmen Square in June 1989, he moved to the dissident-supporting Greenfield Bookstore.

1985年至1989年，林荣基在拥有中资背景的中华书局图书发行部工作。1989年6月，中国政府镇压北京天安门广场支持民主的学生示威者后，他转到了支持异见人士的田园书屋工作。

He founded Causeway Bay in 1994, and it remained a fixture for critics of the mainland, especially after the transfer of sovereignty to China from Britain in 1997.

1994年，他创办了铜锣湾书店。该书店一直是大陆批评者的固定去处，特别是在1997年香港主权从英国移交中国之后。

It was only after his return to Hong Kong in June 2016 that Mr. Lam learned that thousands of his fellow citizens had marched during his captivity, demanding his release and that of the other seized booksellers. He also learned that Causeway Bay had been sold and shuttered.

直到2016年6月返回香港后，林荣基才得知，在他被关押期间，数千名香港市民曾上街游行，要求释放他及其他被捕书商。他还得知铜锣湾书店已被出售并关闭。

In 2019, threatened by a new extradition law, Mr. Lam went into exile in Taiwan. In April of the following year, he reopened his store in Taipei. It soon became a gathering spot for exiled Hong Kongers; Mr. Lam slept on a bunk bed behind the cashier’s desk. To visiting journalists, he issued warnings that what happened to Hong Kong could happen to Taiwan, too.

2019年，面对新的引渡法的威胁，林荣基流亡台湾。次年4月，他在台北重开铜锣湾书店。这里很快成为流亡香港人的聚集地；林荣基就睡在收银台后面的双层床上。他对来访的记者发出警告，发生在香港的事情也可能发生在台湾。

2020年，林荣基在台北的铜锣湾书店。这家店很快便成了流亡香港人的聚集地。

After Mr. Lam’s death, Taiwan’s ministry of culture saluted the store as “an inspiration and role model for democracy, liberty and human rights across borders.”

林荣基去世后，台湾文化部向该书店致敬，称其“留下跨越地域、世代的文化精神，以及对民主、自由、人权价值的深刻启发，其典范长存。”

His survivors include his two sons and his ex-wife, all of whom live in England. Huang Chun-sheng, the pastor handling Mr. Lam’s funeral in Taipei, declined to provide their names for security reasons.

他的遗属包括两个儿子和前妻，他们目前都居住在英国。负责在台北处理林先生葬礼的牧师黄春生出于安全原因拒绝提供他们的名字。

The authorities continue to pursue Hong Kong’s booksellers. It was reported on Wednesday that two independent bookstores in Hong Kong, including Greenfield, had been raided, and five people had been arrested. This followed bookstore raids in March and June.

当局仍在继续追捕香港的书商。周三有报道称，香港的两家独立书店（包括田园书屋）遭到突击搜查，五人被捕。此前，在3月和6月也发生过对书店的突击搜查。

Well before his death, Mr. Lam vowed never to return to China. “Contemporary China,” he told The Times Magazine in 2018, “is an absurd country.”

去世之前，林荣基就曾发誓绝不返回中国。他在2018年告诉《纽约时报杂志》，“当代中国是一个荒谬的国家。”

Professor Chan, of the Taiwan Society for Hong Kong Studies, wrote in an email of Mr. Lam that “despite the difficult times, his painstaking efforts to rebuild the Causeway Bay Books in Taipei over the past few years demonstrated the indomitable spirit of Hong Kongers.”

台湾香港研究学会的陈健民在一封关于林荣基的电子邮件中写道：“尽管时局艰难，他过去几年在台北苦心孤诣重建铜锣湾书店的努力展现了香港人百折不挠的精神。”