Dream of Ding Village is a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke. It is a story based on the blood sales in rural Henan province that sparked a major AIDS crisis in China, and after its first edition sold out, no further copies could be printed there; Yan Lianke has said in interviews that the book could have been better had he not self-censored to ensure it could be published, and the ban is reported to have been lifted in 2011. The 2011 English translation by Cindy Carter, published in the UK by Grove Press, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and a 2011 film adaptation titled Love for Life, directed by Gu Changwei and starring Zhang Ziyi and Aaron Kwok, was also released in China. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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What did Yan Lianke cut from Dream of Ding Village to avoid censorship?
He cut the blood pipeline and the global trade angle and narrowed the story to one village.
Yan Lianke has said he tried to forestall a ban by doing the censors' work for them. He removed the novel's most ambitious features: the blood pipeline, the global trade angle and direct criticism of national politics. Instead, he narrowed the focus to a single village, where blood is bought and sold with horrific consequences.
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Dream of Ding Village (Chinese: 丁庄梦; pinyin: Dīng zhuāng mèng) is a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke.
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Dream of Ding Village (Chinese: 丁庄梦; pinyin: Dīng zhuāng mèng) is a 2006 novel by the Chinese writer Yan Lianke. The 2011 English translation by Cindy Carter, published in the UK by Grove Press, was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It is a story based on the blood sales in rural Henan province that sparked a major AIDS crisis in China.
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