![]() It’s less comprehensive, less boot-on-the-face-as Orwell might have put it-and quirkier than many Westerners imagine.Ĭensors have banned books simply for containing a positive or even neutral portrayal of the Dalai Lama. The different treatment of these texts and their titles helps illuminate the complicated reality of censorship in China. It was-and remains-as easy to buy 1984 and Animal Farm in Shenzhen or Shanghai as it is in London or Los Angeles. But censors did not bother to ban the sale of these texts either in bookstores or online. ![]() The government’s concern was that activists would use these titles to charge, in not-so-subtle code, that China was moving in a decidedly authoritarian direction. Last winter, after the Chinese Communist Party announced the abolition of presidential term limits, Beijing temporarily moved to censor social-media references to George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984. ![]()
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