![]() She even made an appearance in my class last winter, as part of a holiday gift grab, and she was the most sought-after item of the day!īut now, Peppa has now landed in the crosshairs of China’s censorship machine. Soon she became super famous ( season 5 was viewed 14 billion times on YouKu!!), and her face was everywhere – in bookstores, on sweaters with her name misspelled, VIVO and iPhone cases in nightmarkets, and on cracker and biscuit boxes. ![]() Peppa Pig made her debut in China innocently enough, as part of a British children’s cartoon. The latest – and perhaps most pitiful – victim of censorship in China is Peppa Pig. From time to time, a topic, celebrity, popular dessert/ snack, or segment of the population can show up at the wrong place at the wrong time and get censored by the central government.
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