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An expanded, Spanish-language translation of A Short History of the World, discussing recent world events, was banned by Spanish censors in 1940. This edition of A Short History was not published in Spain until 1963. In two 1948 reports, Spanish censors gave a list of objections to the books's publication.
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
The outrage caused led to a new school of liberal Indian feminism and a new vision for Indian women. [7] This new ideal of an Indian woman was viewed as the model embodiment of what it meant to be Indian in an independent nation state. [7] [4] [8] Annie Besant called Mother India "a remarkably wicked book slandering the whole Indian people". [9]
The book was banned in Australia, [23] [24] and a book describing the British trial, The Trial of Lady Chatterley, was also banned. [25] In 1965 a copy of the British edition was smuggled into the country by Alexander William Sheppard , Leon Fink, and Ken Buckley, and then a run of 10,000 copies was printed and sold nationwide.
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Right in the midst of Banned Books Week, which concluded on Saturday, a children's novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district. ...
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanjing Massacre—the mass murder and mass rape of Chinese civilians committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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