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The bans are seldomly enforced, and supposedly banned works can often be bought at flea markets, and experience a rise in popularity due to the Streisand Effect. Piracy is huge there, and it can't be prevented for the most part. This system, by the way, does very little to stop domestic consumption of foreign works in China. ( Surprisingly, no one is talking about Macau, even if the same rule still applies there.) Sometimes, the mere mention of any of these territories, even in a non-provocative context, is enough to cause the CCP to at least threaten to stop doing business with the offending third party. Any works created by someone who supports independence for Tibet, Hong Kong, or Taiwan might incur a ban also. This, of course, would include works which criticize or undermine the government, make fun of China or the Chinese as a whole, reference the more unpleasant events in China's history (particularly ones involving the Communist Party of China, as well as the Second Sino-Japanese War, which remain a sore point between China and Japan), or even risk inciting a revolution that could depose the communist government in favor of democracy. It might not be the most prolific, but it's certainly one of the most visible, because (a) China is a big country and a big export market, so producers want their works to make it there however they can and (b) China is also very authoritarian and fairly paternalistic, so the government has a lot of power and inclination to ban anything it feels has a bad influence on the people.

The trope Banned in China is named for the People's Republic of China, a country famous for banning works seemingly arbitrarily.

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