TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb rejected an attempt by a Chinese printer to add the word “China” before “Taiwan” in a United States edition of his book “Antifragile,” reports said Tuesday.

On Twitter, the Lebanese-American risk analyst and author of the global bestseller “The Black Swan,” wrote: Printer of #Antifragile in China asked me to replace “Taiwan” w/”China, Taiwan.” I (angrily) said “No censorship!”

“The outrage is that a *US* author has his books *sold in the US* censored by the government of China because the book is printed there!,” Taleb wrote in a separate tweet.

The changes the Chinese printer wanted in the book came in a passage discussing the contribution of education to wealth and economic development. “In 1960, Taiwan had a much lower literacy rate than the Philippines and half the income per person; today Taiwan has ten times the income.”

Each time, the printer in China suggested the word “China” should be inserted before the word “Taiwan” in the passage.

Reactions on Twitter mostly signaled approval of Taleb’s stance, with commentators stating that Taiwan was not part of China, or advising the author’s publisher it should be looking for a printer in another country, possibly Taiwan or India.

“Antifragile” is a book about things which get better after resisting shock and upheaval. His earlier book, “The Black Swan,” dealt with unpredictable events and sold millions across the world as it seemed to have been predicting the 2008 global economic and financial crisis.