3/26/2023 0 Comments Lianke yan social amnesia![]() More often, Chinese authors attempting to publish material on political or historical subjects in the mainland find their books banned by state censors, such as Jung Chang’s ( 张戎 ) biography/autobiography Wild Swans and Ma Jian’s ( 马建 ) Beijing Coma, for their depictions of Mao Zedong and the effects of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, respectively. published Fire and Fury four days earlier than anticipated, systematically denying pre-publication censorship and defying a request taken directly from the pages of Beijing’s censorship playbook.įor Chinese writers, this response is rarely, if ever, met with the feverish demand with which Fury and Fury was received. “Killing the Scholars and Burning the Books” (18th century Chinese painting)Ī comparable example of literary censorship in the West can be seen in the attempted suppression of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by the current United States administration, which provoked a letter from the president’s lawyers to Wolff and his publishers, demanding an immediate stop to “any further publication, release or dissemination of the Book, the Article, or any excerpts or summaries of either of them, to any person or entity. ![]() “Somewhere in…” is a monthly column from the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative that addresses international censorship issues.įor those familiar with censorship in China, the Chinese government’s banning of books on the politics and history of its leaders (both past and present), which the Chinese authorities consider polemically divergent from its state-sanctioned opinions, is not a new phenomenon. ![]()
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