喜欢喷的人不必太激动，看看作者自己的update
Bayes in China update
By Andrew Gelman on January 14, 2011 8:57 PM | 12 Comments
Some clarification on the Bayes-in-China issue raised last week:
1. We heard that the Chinese publisher cited the following pages that might
contain politically objectionable materials: 3, 5, 21, 73, 112, 201.
2. It appears that, as some commenters suggested, the objection was to some
of the applications, not to the Bayesian methods.
3. Our book is not censored in China. In fact, as some commenters mentioned,
it is possible to buy it there, and it is also available in university
libraries there. The edition of the book which was canceled was intended to
be a low-cost reprint of the book. The original book is still available. I
used the phrase "Banned in China" as a joke and I apologize if it was
misinterpreted.
4. I have no quarrel with the Chinese government or with any Chinese
publishers. They can publish whatever books they would like. I found this
episode amusing only because I do not think my book on regression and
multilevel models has any strong political content. I suspect the publisher
was being unnecessarily sensitive to potentially objectionable material, but
this is their call. I thought this was an interesting story (which is why I
posted the original email on the blog) but I did not, and do not, intend it
as any sort of comment on the Chinese government, Chinese society, etc.
China is a big country and this is one person at one publisher making one
decision. That's all it is; it's not a statement about China in general.
I did not write the above out of any fear of legal action etc. I just think
it's important to be fair and clear, and it is possible that some of what I
wrote could have been misinterpreted in translation. If anyone has further
questions on this, feel free to ask in the comments and I will clarify as
best as I can.
