Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience
New York: Columbia University Press (2018), xvi, 315 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 273-303, index
ISBN 978-0-231-18475-5 (pbk); 978-0-231-54565-5 (ebook)
"Han reveals how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse, interrogating our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the internet's democratizing power." (Publisher description)
1 Introduction: Pluralism and Cyberpolitics in China, 1
2 Harmonizing the Internet: State Control Over Online Expression, 29
3 To Comply or to Resist? The Intermediaries' Dilemma, 55
4 Pop Activism: Playful Netizens in Cyberpolitics, 77
5 Trolling for the Party: State-Sponsored Internet Commentators, 101
6 Manufacturing Distrust: Online Political Opposition and Its Backlash, 130
7 Defending the Regime: The "Voluntary Fifty-Cent Army", 152
8 Authoritarian Resilience Online: Mismatched Capacity, Miscalculated Threat, 175
2 Harmonizing the Internet: State Control Over Online Expression, 29
3 To Comply or to Resist? The Intermediaries' Dilemma, 55
4 Pop Activism: Playful Netizens in Cyberpolitics, 77
5 Trolling for the Party: State-Sponsored Internet Commentators, 101
6 Manufacturing Distrust: Online Political Opposition and Its Backlash, 130
7 Defending the Regime: The "Voluntary Fifty-Cent Army", 152
8 Authoritarian Resilience Online: Mismatched Capacity, Miscalculated Threat, 175
