The Internet police in China: Regulation, scope and myths

Online Society in China: Creating, Celebrating, and Instrumentalising the Online Carnival

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 40-52

  Chen, Xiaoyan ^a   Ang, Peng Hwa ^b  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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