{"id":1067,"date":"2008-10-03T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2008-09-30T08:33:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T14:33:51","slug":"banned-balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress-by-sijie-dai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/banned-balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress-by-sijie-dai\/","title":{"rendered":"BANNED &#8211; Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Sijie Dai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1068 alignleft\" title=\"balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress.jpg?resize=152%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>Set during the Cultural Revolution in China, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm50946830&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress<\/a><\/strong><\/em> follows two young university students when they are forced to perform manual labor in a poor rural area of the country for &#8220;re-education&#8221;. The hardship of their new life is eased by the discovery of a hidden stash of Western novels, which helps them hang onto a world they thought they&#8217;d lost forever.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, this novel about the devastating affects of repression and censorship has frequently been challenged and banned for sexually explicit scenes.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrate your freedom to read &#8211; do not take this precious democratic freedom for granted! Visit the American Library Association&#8217;s site on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/aboutala\/offices\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bannedbooksweek.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Banned Books Week<\/a><\/strong> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set during the Cultural Revolution in China, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress follows two young university students when they are forced to perform manual labor in a poor rural area of the country for &#8220;re-education&#8221;. The hardship of their new life is eased by the discovery of a hidden<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/banned-balzac-and-the-little-chinese-seamstress-by-sijie-dai\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,136],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-banned","tag-challenged"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-hd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}