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The Buru Quartet
by Pramoedya Anata Toer (Pak Pan) |
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| Pramoedya Anata Toer (aka Pak Pan)’s compliation of four novels is banned in Indonesia. Written while he was a prisoner in the 1970s under the Suharto regime, Pak Pan conceived the stories without pen or paper and recited them orally to fellow inmates. After his release from prison he wrote four volumes: The Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps and House of Glass. They were immediately banned by the Indonesian government, but are well-known abroad and read in secret in Indonesia. |
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Letters From Burma
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi |
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| Collection of 52 essays submitted by the
author to a Japanese paper during the 1990s on her fight for freedom and
democracy in Burma. |
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Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk
by
Palden Gyatso |
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| The author's own words show why his book
is banned in Tibet, "My story is not a glamorous one of high lamas and exotic
ritual, but of how a simple monk succeeded in surviving the destructive forces
of a totalitarian ideology." That totalitarian ideology is the communism of the
People's Republic of China. |
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Falun Gong (Law Wheel Qigong)
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Li Hongzhi |
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| Originally introduced in China in 1992
and welcomed at first by the PRC as a way of handling China's health care, Zhaun
Falun, also known as Falun Gong in the West, is the Chinese philosophy that
emphasizes "Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Forbearance." Falun Gong Founder Li
Hongzi mixed elements of Buddhism, Taoism and Qigong to create a spiritual
movement that examines health issues, karma, and personal growth. Followers in
China are beaten, imprisoned and even killed for practicing Falun
Gong. |
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Dafa: The Falun Dafa books |
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| Shei Shab Andhakar (All that Darkness) by Taslima
Nasrin |
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Described as "...either the bravest or
most foolish..." woman, writer-in-exile Taslima Nasrin's latest book, Shei
Shab Andhakar (All that Darkness) was banned this February 2004 in
Bangladesh. In a handout printed by the Bangladeshi government, Nasrin's book
banning was justified as "the book caused severe hatred and reaction in the
state, society and religious community in Bangladesh as it contains serious
objectionable statements on Islam and Prophet Hazrat Mohammad." Nasrin's
writings focus on her views concerning the struggle of women within Islam and
calls for its reformation. Another of her earlier banned books, entitled
Sham, "was written in the aftermath of the Muslim-Hindu riots in
Bangladesh in 1992-93, sparked further controversy. In Bengali, [Sham] is
an account of the travails of a minority Hindu family, which is harassed by
fundamentalists and forced to migrate to India."
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banned |
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unavailable in book form but excerpts from her earlier works are available on
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