Defending the Authoritarian Regime Online: China's "voluntary Fifty-cent Army"

China Quarterly

Volumn 224, Issue , 2015, Pages 1006-1025

  Han, Rongbin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese cyberspace; Discourse competition; online ethnography; the "voluntary fiftycent army"

Indexed keywords

AUTHORITARIANISM; INTERNET; LIBERALIZATION; NATIONAL IDENTITY; POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIAL MOVEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATE ROLE;

CHINA;

EID: 84949319668     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: 14682648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305741015001216     Document Type: Review

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