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Lady Chatterley Must Go!! How and Why Shanghai Banned DH Lawrence in 1940

Posted: October 14th, 2018 | No Comments »

An abridged essay by me on the bizarre case of the Shanghai Municipal Police deciding to spend the summer of 1940 seizing copies of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and other ‘suspect’ books…now up on the Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel here….



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