The Economist | Chinese cops are cuffing erotica
Original Report | From the 2025-6-28 edition, Page 35 A crackdown on erotic writers Giant cuffs BEIJING Local police have found a perverse way to raise money “In my twenty years of life, I never thought my first flight would be to a Lanzhou police station.” So wrote one young woman who, in the past few weeks. says she was ordered to leave her home and report to authorities in the faraway capital of Gansu province, in the parched north-west....