He was born in China's northeast province of Liaoning but moved to Taiwan in 2009 and recently became a Taiwanese citizen. NPR's Emily Feng looks into his case.ĮMILY FENG, BYLINE: Li Yan-he is more well-known as Fu Cha his pen name. Li's friends say he was detained for publishing politically sensitive books, many of which are banned in China. Li Yan-he, who is a citizen of Taiwan but was born in China, went missing after visiting his relatives in China last month. Maria Machado, author of the memoir In the Dream House, a book that is banned in some school district.China says it has detained a book publisher based in Taiwan. Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. We’ll also talk about the power of books to change the way people see the world.Įmily Knox, associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and author of Book Banning in 21 st Century America.
This hour, we’ll discuss the rise in book challenges around the country, what’s motivating them and the books and themes that are being targeted. Some of the most challenged books in recent years include The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, George by Alex Gino, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas, I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings, and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. The latest target is Maus, Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust.
Some conservative groups and individuals are pressing to remove books from shelves if they address certain issues of race, gender, sexuality, LGTBQ topics, social justice and history.
There has been an increase in efforts to ban books from school libraries, classrooms and reading lists.
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