Human flesh search engines: Carnivalesque riots as components of a ‘Chinese democracy’

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 127-145

  David, Kurt Herold ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203828519     Document Type: Chapter

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