Online activism

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 33-36

  Yang, Guobin ^a  

^a Barnard College of Columbia University   (United States)

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EID: 67651245143     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (11)

1. See Perry Link, trans. "China's Charter 08," New York Review of Books, 15 January 2009. See also Journal of Democracy 20 (April 2009): 179-82.
2. Gao Bingzhong and Yuan Ruijun, "Introduction: Stepping into Civil Society," in Beijing University Civil Society Research Center, Zhongguo gongmin shehui fazhan lanpi shu (Blue book of civil society development in China) (Beijing: Beijing University Press, 2008).
3. Guobin Yang, "How Do Chinese Civic Associations Respond to the Internet? Findings from a Survey," China Quarterly 189 (March 2007): 122-43.
4. In recent years, Chinese mass media have often condemned "Internet verbal violence," although such condemnations are often meant to provide the pretext for calls to tighten Internet control.
5. Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
6. China Internet Network Information Center, "Survey Report on Internet Development in China," January 2008; available at www.cnnic.net.cn/en/index/index.htm.
7. Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labor Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007);
8. Kevin J. O'Brien and Lianjiang Li, Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006);
9. Elizabeth J. Perry, "Chinese Conceptions of 'Rights': From Mencius to Mao and Now," Perspectives on Politics 6 (March 2008): 37-50.
10. A hilarious example is discussed in Michael Wines, "A Dirty Pun Tweaks China's Online Censors," New York Times, 12 March 2009; available at www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/asia/12beast.html.
11. Hu Chuanji, "Wangluo gongmin de jueqi: shui du bie xiang meng wangmin" (The rise of Internet citizens: Don't even think about deceiving netizens), Nanfang dushi bao (Southern Metropolis News), 13 January 2008.