Author Jesse Covner described in a YouTube video how all of his books were destroyed for falling afoul of an increasingly strict Chinese censorship regime, at a time when Beijing has grown more insistent that the world bend to its view on territorial and other issues
As the dead bodies pile up in old Shanghai, a Jesuit priest blames a cholera outbreak. But in the opening act of, a new role-playing game book set in 1920s-era China, the bodies have been drained of all blood, and it soon becomes clear that something far more sinister is afoot.
It’s not the kind of book destined for bestseller lists. Still, enthusiasts pledged US$24,183 to a Kickstarter campaign to see it printed, and author Jesse Covner, co-founder of the design house that created the story, ordered 320 copies from China Seven Color Group, whose main business is printing books for export. On March 20, the company told Mr. Covner that the printing was complete.
The book had “some political problems,” confirmed Lina, a representative of China Seven Color Group who gave only her first name, citing company policy. “They put Zhou Enlai’s photo on a page and used some bad words to describe it.” But “in a country like China, where free speech is rare, publishing such a book is risky,” Lina said.
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