China admits censoring Hillary

[Whitebeard]

"A Chinese publishing house says it "did not have time" to get agreement to cut passages critical of China's human rights record from former US First Lady Hillary Clinton's memoirs.
The New York senator has expressed outrage at the decision to omit references to the imprisonment of human rights activists, media suppression, Tibet and political repression from the Chinese edition of her book Living History.

Government-backed publishing house Yilin Press has written to US publishers Simon and Schuster to explain what had led to publication of the changes without prior agreement.

"In the process of editing the book, our publishing house made some technical adjustments to ensure an even better reception from our readership," Zhang Zude, head of Yilin said.


To make up for lost time against the pirated editions, Yilin Press didn't have time to solicit the agreement of Simon and Schuster
Zhang Zude
He said there was pressure to get the Chinese version out promptly because pirated copies based on the Taiwanese edition were already flooding the market.

"To make up for lost time against the pirated editions, Yilin Press didn't have time to solicit the agreement of Simon and Schuster... This was mainly to protect the rights of the three parties involved."

Simon & Schuster lawyer Elisa Rivlin has written a response saying Yilin's letter did "not begin to address our serious concerns in this matter" and has issued a threat to terminate the two publishers' agreement.

"Your failure to inform us (of the changes) - even after the fact - is inexcusable as a matter of business relations."

Hillary's rage

The book of Mrs Clinton's life at the White House and how she coped with President Bill Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky has become an international bestseller, including in China.

An example of the changes made, said Simon and Schuster, was a reference to Chinese dissident Harry Wu, a human rights activist who spent 19 years in Chinese work camps before being allowed to go to the US.

Wu returned to China in 1995, entering Xinjiang autonomous region from Kazakhstan, and was arrested by Chinese authorities.

In the Chinese translation, Wu is not named and simply described as "a person wanted for espionage and detained awaiting trial".

Wu was released a few weeks after his arrest and returned to the US.

"I was amazed and outraged to hear about this. They censored my book, just like they tried to censor me," Mrs Clinton told the New York Times. "



[color:"blue"]They found out how to do somethinng Bill has been wishing on for years!![/color]

[CollinsvilleZ]

I can not believe that their are Dumbasses who would buy her crap. I know she is the one who got Billy Bob elected, but her views are worth zilch. I guess as Phineas Taylor Barnum said there one born every minute. I laughed the other day, when some one reported that she said "that she did not want to be President", right and there is no Ice in Alaska.