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I have no idea how popular the translated versions are, but the English-language bookstore I visited on a tourist street in Beijing had a decent selection of Orwell but no 1984 or Animal Farm (you'd probably have the opposite problem in a US bookstore, with those two available but none of his Socialist stuff.)

Also missing from the 20th century canon in an decently-sized bookstore were Catch 22 and The Catcher in the Rye but that might be more a regional taste/popularity/vulgarity thing.