censorship

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Ed

 

You are missing the point. this has nothing to do with the academic

curricula of any school. It is about removing books from an exisitng

library collection. That is censorship, pure and simple. And while I

am glad you have chosen to focus yourself on mastery of a specific style

of practice, herbal practice does not exhibit the same diversity as

acupuncture practice. there is virtually unamimous agreement that

classics such as li dong yuan's pi wei lun and zhang zhong jing's shang

han lun are vital to anyone's practice of herbology. Since blue poppy

has done most such translations, to ban their publications effectively

eliminates the possibility of any non chinese speaking student from

grasping herbology at more than a superficial level. Also, remember,

these books were not allegedly banned because of their content; no one

disputes that. They were banned as retaliatory action for unpopular

political speech. this is perhaps more akin to McCarthyism than

anything else as many artists were blacklisted, not necessarily because

of the content of their works, but because of what they were accused of

saying in a political context.