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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Authors Accept Censors' Rules to Sell in China
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Authors Accept Censors' Rules to Sell in China
http://j.mp/1dh4BGA (New York Times)
"Foreign writers who agree to submit their books to China's fickle
censorship regime say the experience can be frustrating. Qiu Xiaolong,
a St. Louis-based novelist whose mystery thrillers are set in
Shanghai, said Chinese publishers who bought the first three books in
his Inspector Chen series altered the identity of pivotal characters
and rewrote plot lines they deemed unflattering to the Communist
Party. Most egregiously, he said, publishers insisted on removing any
references to Shanghai, replacing it with an imaginary Chinese
metropolis called H city because they thought an association with
violent crime, albeit fictional, might tarnish the city's image."
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