China bans Australian books mentioning Tibet or the Dalai Lama

THE Chinese government is refusing to let Australian publishers print books that contain "sensitive" content such as the Dalai Lama or Tibet.

Melbourne publisher Hardie Grant and academic publisher UNSW Press were both advised to remove content from their books being printed in China, otherwise the books would not have been printed and allowed to leave the country, according to reports.

A printing company in Guangdong in southern China told the UNSW Press a reference to the "China-Tibet border", included in a biography by Felicity Jack about her great-grandfather Robert Logan Jack, needed to be removed.