(2003-09-24) — The Chinese publisher of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s ‘Living History’ said that editorial cuts made to the official Chinese edition of the memoir were not censorship, just an “honest mistake.”
Mrs. Clinton said she is “amazed and outraged” by Yilin Press’ deletions of most controversial mentions of China, including references to human rights violations.
But a spokesman for Yilin said, “We thought we were doing Mrs. Clinton a favor. Since she didn’t devote a lot of space to writing about Clinton fundraisers Johnny Chung, Charlie ‘Yah-Lin’ Trie and John Huang, we assumed the references to China which remained in the book were oversights. After all, if they didn’t want to waste space on possible financial connections between the Chinese Army and the Clintons, why would they want to talk about how China treats women?”

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