Book censorship in China

Columns: Title | Author | Type | Notes
The Tiananmen Papers | Compiled by Zhang Liang | Compilation of selected Chinese official documents | Controversy about this book include authenticity of selected documents and selection bias | Life and Death in Shanghai | Nien Cheng | Autobiography | It is about the author 's personal tortured experience during the Cultural Revolution | Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China | Jung Chang | Family history | It talked about brutal political upheavals in China and purges of the Cultural Revolution | Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland ( 1865 ) | Lewis Carroll | Children 's Novel/Adventure | Was banned in the province of Hunan , China , beginning in 1931 for its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals acting on 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 regard humans and animals on the same level , which would be disastrous | Big River , Big Sea - Untold Stories of 1949 ( 2009 ) | Lung Ying-tai | Non-Fiction | It sold over 100,000 copies in Taiwan and 10,000 in Hong Kong in its first month of release , but discussion of her work was banned in mainland China following the book launch | Bloody Myth : An Account of the Cultural Revolution Massacre of 1967 in Daoxian , Hunan ( 血的神话 : 公元1967年湖南道县文革大屠杀纪实 ) | Tan Hecheng | Non-fiction | An account of murders in a rural district of China during Mao Zedong 's Cultural Revolution . Banned for 26 years and released in 2012 | Green Eggs and Ham ( 1960 ) | Dr. Seuss | Novel | In 1965 , a withdrawn source claimed that the children 's novel was temporarily banned in the People 's Republic of China for its portrayal of early Marxism . The ban was lifted in 1991 , following Seuss ' death | Various works | Shen Congwen ( 1902-1988 ) | Novels | Denounced by the Communists and Nationalists alike , Mr. Shen saw his writings banned in Taiwan , while mainland [ China ] publishing houses burned his books and destroyed printing plates for his novels . ... . So successful was the effort to erase Mr. Shen 's name from the modern literary record that few younger Chinese today recognize his name , much less the breadth of his work . Only since 1978 has the Chinese Government reissued selections of his writings , although in editions of only a few thousand copies . ... . In China , his passing was unreported | Zhuan Falun ( 1993 ) | Li Hongzhi | Spiritual/Political | Banned in Mainland China | China 's Best Actor : Wen Jiabao ( 2010 ) | Yu Jie | Political | Author moved to the United States in 2012 | I Love My Mum ( 2004 ) | Chen Xiwo | Political | A novella in which the relationship between Chinese citizens and their government are metaphorically portrayed as a cognitively impaired man in extreme sexual situations with their mother

Example questions:
What religion is the censored author of China 's Best Actor : Wen Jiabao ? | In which year did the author who was censored in China for his book Green Eggs and Ham leave Oxford ? | Which country did the censored author of Zhuan Falun settle in as a permanent resident ? | Which literary works were written by the author censored in China for Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland ?

Answers:
Calvinist | 1927 | United States | Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark