This Day in History: The Chinese government removed a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work on this day in 1977. China has also banned Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which was also banned at Woodsville High School in Haverhill, New Hampshire in 1900. D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was also banned in China, but then that book may be the most banned book of all time. Even Dr Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham was banned for its portrayal of early Marxism (I missed that when I read it). Oddly enough, you can buy George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 in China, but you are not allowed to talk about them on social media.
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