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 forms in China and the world, Yang argues, Chinese online
activism derives its methods and vitality from multiple and
intersecting forces, and state efforts to constrain it have only
led to more creative acts of subversion. Transnationalism and the
tradition of protest in China's incipient civil society provide
cultural and social resources to online activism. Even Internet
businesses have encouraged contentious activities, generating an
unusual synergy between commerce and activism. Yang's book weaves
these strands together to create a vivid story of immense social
change, indicating a new era of informational politics.
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