banned books, china, freedom of speech restrictions, sf express censorship, taiwan

Taiwan’s SF Express Refuses to Ship Books to Hong Kong

A delivery service from Taiwan, SF Express, has reignited the debate on the menace of Chinese authoritarianism after it refused to send books to Hong Kong that it deemed were “harmful to China’s politics, culture, and morality.” SF Express censorship The first person who reported the delivery’s refusal to send books was columnist Leung Man-tao. ...

January 30, 2019

Nspirement Staff

How Dystopias Act as Cautionary Tales

In this excellent Ted-Ed video that’s just under 6 minutes, Alex Gendler goes into how the genre of Dystopias emerged. He looks at how dystopian novels — such as Gulliver’s Travels, Animal Farm, and Brave New World — don’t just come with warnings about governments and technology, the take-away message is that humanity cannot be molded into an ...

July 31, 2017

Jessica Kneipp