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

Web Features:

• Read a review in Foreign Affairs
• Read Guobin Yang’s post on the CUP blog, “Green Dam” as a Case of Online Activism in China.
• Watch a video of Guobing Yang discussing the book.
• Read an interview with Guobin Yang from Barnard Magazine. (pdf)
• Listen to a podcast of Guobin Yang discussing online activism in China.
• Guobin Yang’s reading selections on Campaign for the American Reader.

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.

top of page