An artist whose work was featured as the basis for a Canadian animated movie has had his books banned in China.
“Eternal Spring,” an animated documentary, depicts Chinese Falun Gong practitioners who hacked into state TV in 2002 in an effort to raise awareness of their plight under the Chinese regime.
In the aftermath, police raids swept the city of Changchun, the name of which translates as “eternal spring,” and Daxiong, an award-winning comic book artist and Falun Gong practitioner, was forced to flee to North America in 2008.
Daxiong published more than 100 books before he left China, some of which depicted Chinese people quitting the communist party or illustrated the events of 2002 he had personally witnessed. He was arrested and harassed multiple times by Chinese regime authorities….