BannedBooks
Cover of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

After following a White Rabbit down a hole, Alice enters a fantastical world of impossible physics and strange logic. Beyond its surreal whimsy, the book was banned in Hunan Province, China in 1931 for its portrayal of animals speaking and acting like humans — authorities argued it was an insult to suggest humans and animals were on the same level.

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Why this book is challenged

  • anthropomorphized animals deemed disrespectful to humans
  • drug use allegory
  • anti-authority themes