{"id":964,"date":"2019-02-26T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=964"},"modified":"2019-02-26T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T14:01:17","slug":"worrying-news-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/?p=964","title":{"rendered":"Worrying news from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nibweb member <a title=\"Anne Rooney\" href=\"https:\/\/www.annerooney.com\/\"><strong>Anne Rooney<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reports that an article in the\u00a0Bookseller \u00a0of 25 February warns of 8-week delays as the Chinese government\u00a0insists on checking anything with any maps in of anywhere in the world, any date, whether or not for sale in China; clampdowns on content including nudity, religion and anything politically sensitive. The article includes the following passage:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018A letter sent out in November by one Chinese printing firm warned publishers of tightened regulations on maps, nudity and topics such as religion, war, rebellions and recreational drugs. Clients whose work falls into those categories were urged to send over files well in advance so they could be examined internally by the printers first, to see if they were suitable.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The company was warned it could be placed under \u201cclose supervision\u201d or have its licence revoked if authorities found it had applied to print \u201cimproper\u201d material three times in a year. The printing firm also claimed Chinese officials had threatened to look at books published overseas and trace who the printer was to check the content had been through the proper approval process.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Anne points out that children\u2019s non-fiction writers are already aware of, \u00a0and frustrated by, restrictions on what they write that are\u00a0placed on them by international markets, but this seems to take the problem into a whole new realm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nibweb member Anne Rooney\u00a0reports that an article in the\u00a0Bookseller \u00a0of 25 February warns of 8-week delays as the Chinese government\u00a0insists on checking anything with any maps in of anywhere in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authorblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nibweb.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}