“In people’s imaginations, comics are for little children. Comics give you the impression you should not take it seriously. Authors and publishing houses are using this to transport some other messages.“
Shi Ming of the writers association PEN told AFP as the Frankfurt Book Fair“The social discussion is getting wider and wider” and topics like local corruption or women who want more than one child have been aired for years.”
Shi Ming, an author and board member of PEN’s German chapter, said that while Chinese censorship had spread to commercial and personal issues such as one’s faith, “it’s only a question of time” before it eased bit by bit.“You can publish everything except sex, Tibet and Xinjiang“
Private literary agent Wang NingChinese comics strip sex to reach readers, AFP, Oct. 15, 2009
Before the recent Uighur uprising (against the massive Chinese colonization) the common sentence was : “In Communist China, you can’t talk about 2 things, Tibet and Mao“
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