31 May, 2005

sex and the pla

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.

by @ 10:34 am. Filed under China, Northeast Asia, Media

One Response to “sex and the pla”

  1. Simon World Says:

    Daily linklets 31st May

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