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The year 2003 was a turning point in the history of the Internet in China. Several major Internet incidents (wangluo shijian) significantly expanded the influence of online public opinion. Blogs became popular in that year as a result of the national influence of Muzi Mei's sex blogs. It this essay, I also allude to developments that have taken place through 2008. For a study of the Muzi case, see Farrer, "China's Women Sex Bloggers and Dialogic Sexual Politics on the Chinese Internet," 9-46.
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According to the popular Hobbes' Internet Timeline, the World Wide Web was established in 1991; see http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/.
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This step marked China's "official" connection to the Internet. Limited e-mail connections had been available since 1987. For a timeline of the development of the Internet in China, see the Web site of the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), at http://www.cnnic.net.cn.
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For a case study of Under the Banyan Tree, see Hockx, "Links with the Past," 105-127.
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This situation contrasts with an incident ten years ago, when Wang Meng withdrew from China's first Internet Literature Award committee in response to users' questioning the qualifications of print authors as judges of Internet literature. On that incident, see Guobin Yang, "The Internet as Cultural Form," 112.
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Note that Internet literature, at least works of fiction, comes closer to works of the "'new' new generation" (xinxin renlei wenxue) and "babe fiction" (baobei wenxue) than to fiction produced by the more established print writers. Both types have strong autobiographical and confessional elements. Both focus on the anxieties of young urban contemporaries. These similarities suggest that Internet literature and literary works of the new generation have a common social origin, athough, yet again, recognizable stylistic differences exist between the two. For studies of the so-called" 'new' new generation," see Berg, "Consuming Secrets," in this volume; Ferry, "Marketing Chinese Women Writers in the 1990s"
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