Thanks to David Cowhig for sending the following to CDN. It is a valuable introduction to a very important topic. Here is David’s email: Just today I read a chapter from the August 2004 book Undercurrents: Criticisms and Reflections on Narrow-minded Nationalism [Qianliu: Dui xia’ai minzuzhuyi de pipan yu fansi]. This book, edited by Le […]
Read MoreOpenNet Initiative, a group of university researchers just published their latest study on domestic blog providers in China. Chinese blogsphere has been growing rapidly, but the study gives a outline of what censors had done. Here is their report: “Weblogs, most often called “blogs” have become one of the fastest growing segments of the Internet. […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times, by Colin Galloway: “China has never been known as the friendly face of the Internet. Police and government agencies go to great lengths to control how citizens get online and how they act when they do, actively persecuting dissidents, closing thousands of Internet cafes, and creating a vast and technically dazzling cyber-edifice […]
Read MoreFrom the Financial Times: “The Chinese government’s decision to block access to Google’s English-language news service is a reminder that, even in cyberspace, realpolitik rules. While Beijing is reckoned to have the most sophisticated system of internet censorship, it is not alone in controlling what its citizens see online. Saudi Arabia, Iran, North Korea, Syria […]
Read MoreFrom Asia Times online: “Top officials from China’s propaganda sector recently convened a high-level meeting in central China’s Henan province and concluded that some people are ‘exploiting the Internet’ to attack the government and ruling Communist Party, Asia Times Online has learned from an informed source in Beijing. China experts say this session may signal […]
Read MoreThe Guangdong party secretary has criticized the Hong Kong media for reporting on recent protests in the province, which have been blacked out in the mainland media. Lin Shusen told reporters that he doesn’t believe there has been an increase in the number of public protests and said, ‘It’s normal for people to go to […]
Read MoreHere is the link to my article on Chinese bloggers in the New Scientist. In the current Chinese cyberspace, bloggers may not be as loud as their American counterparts. But they are potentially certainly no less subversive to the...
Read MoreFrom Chinaelections.org: “The Niu Niu Incident in Shenzhen has yet to catch attention from the Western media but it is certainly going to be as significant as other incidents that have caused us to ponder the dynamics of the Internet and Chinese populace’s emboldening cry for social justice and reigning in corrupt officials.” Thanks to […]
Read MoreIn Asia Times, Paul Mooney makes the point that the recent upsurge in unrest we have been reading about in China’s countryside may be due as much to improved communications as to an increase in incidents: “Making matters worse for the government, China’s ‘new media’ appear to be reaching a critical mass. While news of […]
Read MoreIn an article about government control of the Internet, the Globe and Mail interviews Liu Di, the “Stainless Steel Mouse” and gives an update on writer Du Daobin: “Ms. Liu is now a major player in an intense tug of war between China’s police-state apparatus and a growing number of politically astute Internet users who […]
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