Artist/Author/Producer: Dodgson, Charles L. (Lewis Carroll) (1832-1898)
Confronting Bodies: Chinese Governor of Hunan Province
Dates of action: 1931
Location: China
Description of the Art Work
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", 1865: Children story, with a touches
of gentile satire on education for children's special benefit. Fairy-tale
of Alice who goes down a rabbit whole and her adventures.
1931 China: Banned by the Governor of Hunan Province on the ground that
"Animals should not use human language, and that it was disastrous to put
animals and human beings on the same level."
Results of incident
Unknown.
Source: Banned Books 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., by Anne Lyon Haight, and Chandler B.
Grannis, R.R. Bowker Co, 1978.
