Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

by Margaret E. Roberts

Book Overview

A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in China

As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship that is easy to circumvent can still be...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691178860
• ISBN13: 9780691178868
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"