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I'm promoting my note to a "review," as I'm not likely to return to this for a while. My summarized complaint, at the moment, is:
-The hype about it being a scandalous book has probably been a dishonest marketing ploy at least since the 17th century!
-It's part of a long Chinese tradition of cliche collage-work
-If today's marketing were more honest, instead of saying banned and censored for centuries because it's obscene, they would instead say ignored for centuries because it's derivative.
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-The hype about it being a scandalous book has probably been a dishonest marketing ploy at least since the 17th century!
-It's part of a long Chinese tradition of cliche collage-work
-If today's marketing were more honest, instead of saying banned and censored for centuries because it's obscene, they would instead say ignored for centuries because it's derivative.
However ...more
Nov 27, 2016
S.L. Berry
marked it as to-read
