This book discusses the rich and varied culture of China's online society, and its impact on offline China. It argues that the Internet in China is a separate '

Taking off at the height of China’s socio-economic reforms in the mid-1990s, the Internet developed alongside the twists and turns of the country’s rapid tr

A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from thos

Since the mid-1990s, the Internet has revolutionized popular expression in China, enabling users to organize, protest, and influence public opinion in unprecede

This book aims to identify the most important political, socio-economic, and technical determinants of Internet development in China, through a historical appro