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  • The Little Chinese Seamstress- Examples of censorship
  • Ma, the narrator and his best friend Ma, are sent to a remote village in a mountain by the government to get re-educated. This shows how strict the government is, and why its so hard to speak out with such life changing punishments.
  • As soon as they get there they are searched and the villagers are surprised by the violin. HE calls in a toy, However, Ma plays a song for them, Mozart, and changes the name to thinking of Chairman Mao" to be more convincing. This shows sensorship because thing of creativity seem to be put down and anything of which is new is considered bad.
  • When Lou and Ma were coming back from town one day, they passed older women who happened to be their friend 4-eyes grandmother, who was taking him out of re-education. She had given 4-eyes a suitcase with books and the boys managed to get only one. Ma pretends to be Lou and mentions the books and the old woman denies it. This shows censorship because books are banned and she has to lie.
  • In this scene, Ma and Lou go and try to steal the suitcase while 4-eyes and everybody are celebrating his leave. Thye opens the suitcase and 4-eyes and his grandma come in. 4-eyes has the runs after drinking a cow's blood for a previous ceremony. Ma hides under a bed with a waste bucket and Lou hides inside a closet. After they finally leave they take the books. This is another example of censorship because they have to sneak around about the books to educate themselves.
  • In this significant scene, Lou starts reading "Balzac" a french, Chinese-translated story, to his significant other, the little seamstress. He read it to her and then she re-read sucking in every single word. This is another example of censorship because they took the little library source they had and clung to it, trying to savor every single word.
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