Book burning

Japanese: 焚書 - ふんしょ（英語表記）book burning

The burning of books. In particular, the act or ritual of publicly burning books by rulers or those in power with the aim of suppressing the ideas contained in those books and preventing their circulation and spread. Since the First Emperor of Qin's burning of books and burying of scholars (213 BC), it is an extreme form of censorship and book banning, and a means of suppressing and controlling ideas and speech that has continued almost without interruption throughout history, as seen in the book burnings of Nazi Germany (1933) and the book burnings of China's Cultural Revolution (1966). In an age when books are mass-produced cheaply, it is impossible to burn everything, but it is carried out with symbolic meaning of suppression and control. [See also] Censorship

Source: Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 4th Edition Dictionary of Library and Information Science, 5th Edition About Information

Japanese:

書物を焼却すること．特に，書物に記された思想を禁圧し，その流通，伝播を抑止する目的で，為政者，権力者が公開の場で当該書物を焼却する行為，儀式．秦の始皇帝の焚書坑儒（前213）以来，ナチスドイツの焚書（1933），中国文化大革命の焚書（1966）にも見られるように，歴史的にほとんど途絶えることなく続いている思想・言論の弾圧・統制手段であり検閲・禁書の極端な形態である．書物が大量に安価に生産される時代にあってはすべてを焼却することは不可能であるが，弾圧・統制の象徴的な意味を持って行われる．[参照項目] 検閲

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