From the Hong Kong Standard, weekend edition, an item noting why censorship doesn’t work.:

China’s arbiters of taste are fighting a losing battle. Their prudish attempts to purge sexually explicit and politically sensitive works from bookshops in the mainland have backfired - by transforming banned writings into underground hits.
Nearly all books axed by Communist Party censors in recent years … have become hot properties.

Far from scaring of the public, media hype brought about by the bans has helped some of those books gain instant notoriety.
A novella about steamy sex in the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has become the latest work to offend the guardians of socialist mores and as a result scale the lists of popular reading.