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My personal benchmark for this is to monitor Taobao for the day that the book is banned from Chinese markets. So far it's still available for sale: https://s.ta
by z2 9y ago
My personal benchmark for this is to monitor Taobao for the day that the book is banned from Chinese markets. So far it's still available for sale: https://s.taobao.com/search?q=%E4%B8%80%E4%B9%9D%E5%85%AB%E5%9B%9B&type=p&tmhkh5=&spm=a21wu.241046-us.a2227oh.d100&from=sea_1_searchbutton&catId=100 https://s.taobao.com/search?q=%E4%B8%80%E4%B9%9D%E5%85%AB%E5...
- ballenf 9y agoHere's a youtuber I came across in prep for a trip to China last year: https://www.youtube.com/user/serpentza https://www.youtube.com/user/serpentza He's a South African living in China for 10 years and married to a Chinese woman. Very interesting to see his videos from the last few months about how things are changing in a more dramatic way than in his entire time there.
- GuiA 9y agoI'm overall not that familiar with Chinese culture, so asking with genuine curiosity - why would the availability of 1984, a piece of Western work depicting the Western world with very little mention of China, be an interesting benchmark? If the average Chinese person has no prior interest in wanting to read that book or even knowing of its existence, why would the Chinese government care about banning it?