The same thing happened to renowned novelist Jia Pingwa's 1993 new book Fei Du (The Abandoned Capital), banned a month after its publication.
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贾平凹的《废都》描绘了转型期传统士大夫式人文知识分子的道德沉沦。
Jia Pingwa's "Deserted City" describes the intellectuals, who are just like the traditional Confucians, lost their conscience in transformation period.