Chin Shengt 'an regards reading a banned book behind closed doors on a snowy night as one of the greatest pleasures of life.

金圣叹认为雪夜闭户读禁书，是人生最大的乐趣。

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The banned book appears as a social phenomenon when the history of human beings developed into class society accompanied by a comparative increase in the number of books.

禁书是人类进入阶级社会以后，在图书相对增加的情况下出现的一种社会现象。

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In Qing Dynasty, it was a banned book for the "affronting" remarks in its prelude. It has two editions at least. Both of them are faulty texts that must be emended before being a reference.

该书目前至少有两种版本传世，由于各本中存在着诸多文字上的错误，在利用时要加以校勘。

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So, it was a very popular book in the U.S., but it did have this history of being banned in Europe, and it was certainly controversial here.

因此，尽管现在这是一本广受欢迎的书，但它历史上确乎,在欧洲遭遇过禁止，并且在美国也是非常有争议的。

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Festival organiser and author William Dalrymple said that a lot of people "don't realise that even reading from a banned book is against the law".

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No American court since has banned a book for being obscene.

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First, it is most likely that a relatively low-ranking official banned my book, or even possibly a distributor who self-censored out of caution, rather than someone with real power in the central government.

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