The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online

by Guobin Yang

Book Overview

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecedented ways. Guobin Yang's pioneering study maps an innovative range of contentious forms and practices linked to Chinese cyberspace, delineating a nuanced and dynamic image of the Chinese Internet as an arena for creativity, community, conflict, and control. Like many other contemporary protest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231144202
• ISBN13: 9780231144209
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher