See, Republicans? You and the CCP aren’t all that different! There’s common ground here!
They also have something in common: neither of them practice communism ☺️
Both have a cult of personality around the leader and the concept of an ethnostate.
Oof don’t say that around @dessalines@lemmy.ml they get bigly mad when you point out bad things about the CCP lmao
This is not the current CCP, but China has the award for the most stupid censorship of all time.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT’s government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings. The censor General Ho Chien believed that attributing human language to animals was an insult to humans. He feared that the book would teach children to believe that humans and animals were on the same level, a result which would be “disastrous.”
Imagine being sent to the labor mines for reading Twighlight.
Oh good, wouldn’t want thoughtcrime to pop up.
I’m actually curious which books they have bought.
None of the corruption cases publicly reveal what reading materials the fallen cadres had accessed. But a list of banned titles published by China Digital Times offers some possibilities. The list includes writings on Chinese politics and history, including the Tiananmen Square massacre and the disastrous Mao-era policies that saw millions die from famine, violence, and political purges. There are books scrutinising the modern CCP’s politics and power, or sharing the views of political enemies and critics like Hong Kong tycoon and activist Jimmy Lai, the exiled Tibetan Dalai Lama, and Bo Xilai, the fallen political foe of Xi Jinping. Hillary Clinton’s memoir is on the list, as is Machiavelli’s The Prince, and Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism.
