Banned Books
This webpage article was created in order to commence the United Kingdom's For Books' Sake Banned Books Week. The Banned Books Week aims to bring awareness to a larger audience books that have been banned either in history or in the present day in an assortment of countries, including the 1931 ban of Alice in Wonderland in the Hunan province of China.
Alice in Wonderland was blacklisted by the Governor of the Hunan province of China in 1931 under the belief that animals should not talk like humans and that it is disastrous to put animals and human beings on the same level.
This article discusses the positive impacts that reading the different versions of Alice in Wonderland such as learning to show respect for animals and ones surrounds and developing a strong imagination in which many things are possible.
One major limitation of this text is that it does not delve into the details of how and why the book was banned in this area of China. This is however most likely due to the inability to gather information on the Chinese government because of their censorship.
Alice in Wonderland was blacklisted by the Governor of the Hunan province of China in 1931 under the belief that animals should not talk like humans and that it is disastrous to put animals and human beings on the same level.
This article discusses the positive impacts that reading the different versions of Alice in Wonderland such as learning to show respect for animals and ones surrounds and developing a strong imagination in which many things are possible.
One major limitation of this text is that it does not delve into the details of how and why the book was banned in this area of China. This is however most likely due to the inability to gather information on the Chinese government because of their censorship.