Chinese censors have banned a racy novel and pulled it from book shelves. “The novella, Serve the People – named after Mao’s most famous slogan – has been rejected for publication and a magazine that had been serialising the contents has been pulled from the shelves. Although it was written by one of China’s most distinguished authors, Yan Lianke, propaganda ministry officials were reportedly apoplectic when they first read the tale of sexual revolution inside the People’s Liberation Army.”