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 :(
I'm currently reading this book and found it to be quite accessible even for someone who's not very tech-savvy (me). I think people of lemmy may appreciate its discussions of how to break up the big techs, the way big techs keep users by essentially holding them hostage, etc. I'm also a huge fan of its publisher (Verso) :)
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 ๐ญ 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.