Nassim Nicholas Taleb hits out at Chinese printers’ censorship of his book

Author protests after proofs of Afterlife returned with marks indicating that Taiwan should be referred to as part of China

The writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb has blasted Chinese printers with accusations of censorship, after the manuscript for a US edition of his 2012 book Antifragile was returned with the instruction to replace mentions of Taiwan with “China, Taiwan”.

The Lebanese-American author of bestseller The Black Swan, which predicted the 2008 global economic crash, posted on Twitter: “Printer of ‪#Antifragile in China asked me to replace ‘Taiwan’ w/‘China, Taiwan’. I (angrily) said ‘No censorship!’”

Printer of #Antifragile in China asked me to replace "Taiwan" w/"China, Taiwan".
I (angrily) said "No censorship!" http://pic.twitter.com/CDqcBV4fnW

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