Yan Lianke's "Serve The People!" contained vivid sex scenes, with characters aroused by destroying images and writings of Mao and set during the Cultural revolu

Yan Lianke's "Serve The People!" contained vivid sex scenes, with characters aroused by destroying images and writings of Mao and set during the Cultural revolution, when the punishment would be death by firing squad. The Party responded to the 2005 controversy by halting a magazine's publication of the work. This in turn led to enormous demand for the novel, naturally. Wikipedia (yes, guilty), citing July 2007's "A pen for the people" in "The Age." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Lianke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Lianke See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect