Article 235

A person who distributes, broadcasts or sells material containing obscene language, or obscene pictures, sounds, images or other objects, or publicly displays or otherwise enables others to read, view or hear same shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than two years, detention and/or a fine of not more than thirty thousand yuan. The foregoing punishment shall also apply to a person who manufactures or possesses the kind of material containing language, pictures, sounds, images referred to in the preceding paragraph and the objects to which they are affixed or other matters with intent to distribute, broadcast or sell same. The objects and matters to which the words, pictures or images referred to in the two preceding paragraphs are affixed shall be confiscated regardless of whether they belong to the offender.