XPost: rec.arts.sf.written   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Cryptoengineer   wrote:   
   >Seeing as a Chinese edition has been published, in China, I don't think   
   >they objected to the book. Its disqualification seems to have been at   
   >the hands of a clueless and craven committee of Westerners.   
   >   
   >The Opium Wars and in particular, the destruction of the Summer Palace,   
   >are a staple of current Chinese criticism of the West. The period is   
   >known as 'The Century of Humiliation'.   
      
   This is clear and evident before the book was even read.  But what I didn't   
   realize before reading it was just how fun a book it was.   
   --scott   
      
      
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)