Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience
ISBN: 9780231545655
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



Rongbin Han offers a powerful counterintuitive explanation for China's survival in the digital age. Han reveals how the state, service providers, and netizens negotiate the limits of discourse, interrogating our assumptions about authoritarian resilience and the internet's democratizing power.
Rongbin Han is an assistant professor in the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia.
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