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https://www.yog-sothoth.com/index.html/news/chinese-government-burns-call-of-cthulhu-supplement/
For many years, various publishers in the Americas and Europe have had their books printed in China as a cost-saving measure (including many in the RPG field). Often the primary downside of this has simply been the time taken for the books to arrive, but it appears there can also be another problem, as the publishers of The Sassoon Files (a Cthulhu-based RPG supplement) have announced that all print copies of their book have been destroyed by the Chinese Government – for unspecified reasons.
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/the-sassoon-files.html
Julio writes, "Sons of the Singularity is a small RPG publisher. Last year, they kickstarted The Sassoon Files, a sourcebook for the popular Call of Cthulhu RPG and Trail of Cthulhu RPG. As a lot of publishers, theydid[sic] the printing in China. The same day that the print was finished, a Chinese Government decided that it was "problematic", so they burned the entire print run. Targeting foreign publications is a first, specially when it seems there wasn't anything problematic (the supplement was based on Shanghai but was respetful and documented carefully).
https://sonsofthesingularity.com/setback-in-the-sassoon-files-banned-by-the-ccp/
We have suffered an unfortunate and unexpected setback with the off-set print run. On March 20th, the Chinese government ordered the destruction of our books. Although the printer returned our deposit, we need to find another printer and this will result in a delay in fulfillment. We are committed to completing the print run and fulfillment.
(Score: 2) by broggyr on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:35PM (4 children)
How's that cost-saving measure working out for you now?
Taking things out of context since 1972.
(Score: 5, Funny) by bob_super on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:46PM (3 children)
They got a refund, so it's just a delay ...
It's their fault though. To avoid censorship, they tried to make Cthulhu friendlier-looking, rounded his face and gave it a gentle smile and colorful skin, which caused the editor to worry that it was the Evil Winnie The Pooh !
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:20PM (1 child)
To avoid censorship? UGH! that would even make me want to burn the books, and the publishing house, and the whole town!
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Funny) by khallow on Wednesday March 27 2019, @02:49AM
Hence, why it was censored. Nobody wants to trigger fustakrakich, burner of towns.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday March 27 2019, @10:01AM
It wasn't that at all. After the fall of the Soviet Union, China took over the records from Project Koschei, combined with records from the Pabodie expedition that Chinese "students" lifted from U.Miskatonic in the US. This book would have revealed a little too much about what they were doing with the shoggoth pits deep in the Taklamakan Desert, so they had to destroy all copies of it before the knowledge got out.
Did you really think those mysterious structures out in the desert were "spy satellite targets" like Western media reported?