Cyber-nationalism in China : challenging Western media portrayals of internet censorship in China /
"The prevailing consumerism in Chinese cyberspace is a growing element of Chinese culture and an important aspect of this book. Chinese bloggers, who have strongly embraced consumerism and tend to be apathetic about politics, have nonetheless demonstrated political passion over issues such as t...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Adelaide :
University of Adelaide Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | View web version |
| Summary: | "The prevailing consumerism in Chinese cyberspace is a growing element of Chinese culture and an important aspect of this book. Chinese bloggers, who have strongly embraced consumerism and tend to be apathetic about politics, have nonetheless demonstrated political passion over issues such as the Western media's negative coverage of China. In this book, Jiang focuses upon this passion - Chinese bloggers' angry reactions to the Western media's coverage of censorship issues in current China - in order to examine China's current potential for political reform. A central focus of this book, then, is the specific issue of censorship and how to interpret the Chinese characteristics of it as a mechanism currently used to maintain state control."--Cover description. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 141 pages : color illustrations, color charts ; 25 cm. Also available in electronic format via the Internet. Address as at 12/7/12: http://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/cyber/ying-ebook.pdf. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-141). |
| ISBN: | 9780987171849 (electronic) 0987171844 (electronic) 9780987171894 (paperback) 0987171895 (paperback) |