Shanghai Baby

Shanghai Baby is a semi-autobiographical novel by Wei Hui. Banned.

Its interest lies partly in the way literary or informational writing gets collapsed into a public-morality problem. As a semi-autobiographical novel, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.

It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in China. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: Banned. Burned in the street and the publisher was shut down for three months because of its sexual and drug-related content, which has been accused of being "immoral" by the government. Other writers have accused the. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

Shanghai Baby entered censorship debates as a semi-autobiographical novel associated with morality, print scandal, and sexuality. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around obscenity and public morality.

The earliest event currently captured here is 20th-21st century in China, where Chinese state censors and party authorities banned or suppressed publication. Banned. Burned in the street and the publisher was shut down for three months because of its sexual and drug-related content, which has been accused of being "immoral" by the government. Other writers have accused the. Banned. Burned in the street and the publisher was shut down for three months because of its sexual and drug-related content, which has been accused of being "immoral" by the government. Other writers have accused the book of plagiarism.

This entry is still incomplete: more jurisdictions, court orders, and translated justifications should be added over time.

This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.

• Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds Dawn B. Sova

  Surveys the legal and moral language used to suppress books as obscene.

• Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. Anne Lyon Haight

  Useful for seeing how obscenity law and censorship habits changed over time.

• 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova

  A compact reference on how censorship systems moved across states, churches, and courts.

• Wikipedia: Book censorship in China reference partial
• Wikipedia REST summary API database partial
• Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds book partial
• Banned Books: 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. book partial
• 100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature book partial