After some further investigation, this is what seems to have happened. The Chinese publisher of my book
Bending Spines sent out some copies to a major Chinese mail order company. After those had been shipped, they got a call from a government official instructing them not to ship any more. Apparently, they were not ordered to recall the copies already released. Perhaps as many as a thousand copies are thus “in the wild” in China. It is anyone’s guess if and when the government may change its mind and allow further distribution.
AT my school in Beijing, we were shut down for a week and library locked because the authorities discovered Rand McNally atlases where Taiwan was coloured differently from China.
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