Censorship has been ongoing since the establishment of the People’s Republic, but it has evolved in degrees and justifications. Today, the Party no longer claims to embody universal truth. For the censors, pragmatism has substituted ideology. Censorship’s two main procedures consist in isolating in order to control and in controlling with flexibility, in order to de-publicize and depoliticize literature’s social impacts. This flexibility of control extends to issues of literary content as well.