China's Amorphous Censorship

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Louisa Lim and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, The Gray Zone; Chinese writers employ stealth to elude the censors. New York Times, June 17, 2012 (in the Book Review section).
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/1 ... html?pagewanted=all

Note:
(a) House of Literature, Oslo.
http://www.litteraturhuset.no/english
(opened in 2007)
(b) anodyne (n; Greek anōdynos, from a- + odynē pain):
"1: something that soothes, calms, or comforts <the anodyne of bridge, a comfortable book, or sport — Harrison Smith>
2: a drug that allays pain"
www.m-w.com