Happy Year of the Sheep (or Goat, or Ram)! To celebrate Lunar New Year, we’re offering our latest eBooks for 99 cents in e-reader and Apple device-friendly formats, as well as PDF. 新年快乐!万事如意!
“Covering China from Cyberspace in 2014”
See the major events of last year through the eyes of Chinese censors and the netizens who are brave enough to defy them. CDT’s first year in review explores some the biggest stories from the best of the news reports and analysis, Internet commentary, propaganda directives, cartoons, and online imagery. “Covering China from Cyberspace in 2014” is a valuable resource for analysts, journalists, students, and anyone who wants a unique perspective on China.
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“Decoding the Chinese Internet: A Glossary of Political Slang”
Know your grass-mud horse from your river crab. Organized by broad categories, “Decoding the Chinese Internet” will guide readers through the colorful, raucous world of China’s online resistance discourse. Students of Mandarin will gain insight into word play and learn terms that are key to understanding Chinese Internet language. But no knowledge of Chinese is needed to appreciate the creative leaps netizens make in order to keep talking. Perry Link and CDT Chief Editor Xiao Qiang introduce the subversive power of grass-mud horse language in the introduction.
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“Crazy Crab’s Chinese Dream: Political Cartoons, 2012-2013”
Learn the story behind the image with forty images drawn exclusively for CDT by one of China’s foremost political cartoonists, with explanatory text written by Executive Editor Sophie Beach. Crazy Crab’s drawings covered a busy period in Chinese political history, from the downfall of former Chongqing Party Chief Bo Xilai to the transition of power from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping.
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