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Why Hunan banned Alice in Wonderland

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Because God forbid a caterpillar gives a child bad ideas about social mobility. In 1931, the governor of Hunan province in China banned Lewis Carroll's classic book, arguing that elevating animals to the same conversational level as humans was an intolerable insult to humanity that would severely confuse impressionable children.

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