The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online

Guobin Yang

June, 2009
Cloth, 320 pages, 10 illus; 19 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14420-9
$29.50 / £20.50

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Online Activism in an Age of Contention

2. The Politics of Digital Contention

3. The Rituals and Genres of Contention

4. The Changing Style of Contention

5. The Business of Digital Contention

6. Civic Associations Online

7. Utopian Realism in Online Communities

8. Transnational Activism Online

Conclusion: China’s Long Revolution

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• East Asian Studies
• Media Studies

Series

• Contemporary Asia in the World

About the Author

Guobin Yang is an associate professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University. He has a Ph.D. in sociology from New York University and is coeditor, with Ching Kwan Lee, of Re-envisioning the Chinese Revolution: The Politics and Poetics of Collective Memories in Reform China.

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