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Censored : distraction and diversion inside China's great firewall
As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship that is easy to circumvent can still be enormously effective. Taking advantage of digital data harvested from the Chinese Internet and leaks from China's Propaganda Department, this important book sheds light on how and when censorship influences the Chinese public. Roberts finds that much of censorship in China works not by making information impossible to access but by requiring those seeking information to spend extra time and money for access. By inconveniencing users, censorship diverts the attention of citizens and powerfully shapes the spread of information. When Internet users notice blatant censorship, they are willing to compensate for better access. But subtler censorship, such as burying search results or introducing distracting information on the web, is more effective because users are less aware of it. Roberts challenges the conventional wisdom that online censorship is undermined when it is incomplete and shows instead how censorship's porous nature is used strategically to divide the public. -- Inside jacket flap.
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Media transparency in China
This book argues that the gap between the official transparency rhetoric and the censorship reality has demonstrated the discrepancy between what the Party is and what it claims to be. Such a discrepancy is manifested by the reality that the reformed news industry, a hybrid of market-oriented commercialization and party-state control, has largely failed to deliver either the voice of the disenfranchised groups or the value of journalism. To observe the discrepancy, this book investigates the role of transparency in the Chinese news media. Media transparency, which goes beyond the issue of censorship and press freedom, has been undermined by the consensus reached between the party-state and the media on political and market control. It is this mutually accommodating and benefiting scheme between power and profits that has been hollowing out the substance of the transparency rhetoric and distorting the Marxist idea of press freedom as freedom for all. This book argues that the cause of such a gap between rhetoric and reality is rooted in the disjuncture of political representation of both the party-state and the profit-seeking media.
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How China's Communist Party made the world sick
The outbreak of a deadly new form of pneumonia that began in Wuhan, China in December 2019 has shown the world that the regime in Beijing poses the most serious threat to world peace and freedom since the Soviet Union. Early missteps by China's ruling Communist Party — repressing doctors who sought to alert China and the world the dangers of Wuhan virus and permitting millions to travel out of Wuhan for a holiday — caused the global pandemic now devastating populations and economies around the world.
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Reinventing Licentiousness
Reinventing Licentiousness
navigates an overlooked history of representation during
the transition from the Qing Empire to the Chinese Republic-a time
when older, hierarchical notions of licentiousness were overlaid by
a new, pornographic regime.
Y. Yvon Wang draws on previously untapped archives-ranging from
police archives and surveys to ephemeral texts and pictures-to
argue that pornography in China represents a unique configuration
of power and desire that both reflects and shapes historical
processes. On the one hand, since the late imperial period,
pornography has democratized pleasure in China and opened up new
possibilities of imagining desire. On the other, ongoing
controversies over its definition and control show how the
regulatory ideas of premodern cultural politics and the popular
products of early modern cultural markets have contoured the
globalized world.
Reinventing Licentiousness emphasizes the material
factors, particularly at the grassroots level of consumption and
trade, that governed \"proper\" sexual desire and led to ideological
shifts around the definition of pornography. By linking the past to
the present and beyond, Wang's social and intellectual history
showcases circulated pornographic material as a motor for cultural
change. The result is an astonishing foray into what historicizing
pornography can mean for our understandings of desire, legitimacy,
capitalism, and culture.
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Writing for print : publishing and the making of textual authority in late imperial China
\"Examines the widespread practice of self-publishing by writers in late imperial China, focusing on the inextricable relationships between manuscript tradition and print convention, between peer patronage and popular fame, and between gift exchange and commercial transactions in textual production and circulation\"--Provided by publisher.
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The \Four C's\ of Contemporary China
Although this article has no pretension that it captures more than a fraction of the complex reality that is contemporary China, it explores what the author calls \"the Four C's\"--the Communist Party, censorship, corruption and construction--that shed light on important facets of that reality. Extensive reading about China's recent history has provided the author with a trove of information that he thinks will interest readers of this Journal. His reference to \"the Four C's\" is a fanciful application of China's love for numbering so many things, such as \"the Four Cardinal Principles\" and \"the Five Nos.\"
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Resisting spirits : drama reform and cultural transformation in the People's Republic of China
\"Resisting spirits is a reconsideration of the significance and periodization of literary production in the high socialist era, roughly 1953 through 1966, specifically focused on Mao-era culture workers' experiments with ghosts and ghost plays. Maggie Greene combines rare manuscript materials--such as theatre troupes' annotated practice scripts--with archival documents, memoirs, newspapers, and films to track key debates over the direction of socialist aesthetics. Through arguments over the role of ghosts in literature, Greene illuminates the ways in which culture workers were able to make space for aesthetic innovation and contestation both despite and because of the constantly shifting political demands of the Mao era. Ghosts were caught up in the broader discourse of superstition, modernization, and China's social and cultural future. Yet, as Greene demonstrates, the ramifications of those concerns as manifested in the actual craft of writing and performing plays led to further debates in the realm of literature itself: If we remove the ghost from a ghost play, does it remain a ghost play? Does it lose its artistic value, its didactic value, or both? At the heart of Greene's intervention is \"just reading\": the book regards literature first as literature, rather than searching immediately for its political subtext, and the voices of dramatists themselves finally upstage those of Mao's inner circle. Ironically, this surface reading reveals layers of history that scholars of the Mao era have often ignored, including the ways in which social relations and artistic commitments continued to inform the world of art. Focusing on these concerns points to continuities and ruptures in the cultural history of modern China beyond the bounds of \"campaign time.\" Resisting Spirits thus illuminates the origins of more famous literary inquisitions, including that surrounding Hai Rui Dismissed from Office, by exploring ghost plays such as Li Huiniang that at first appear more innocent. To the contrary, Greene shows how the arguments surrounding ghost plays and the fates of their authors place the origins of the Cultural Revolution several years earlier, with a radical new shift in the discourse of theatre.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Tiananmen Square 30
\"In the early morning hours of June 4, 1989, 30 years ago yesterday, Chinese government troops killed and wounded thousands of protestors in Tiananmen Square, a large public area in Beijing, China. The violent incident was the climax of nearly two months of protests for political and economic reform in the tightly controlled Communist country. Chinese officials stated that some 200 people died in the June 4 incident (often remembered in China as '6/4'). However, international observers said that more than 1,000 people were killed, and thousands of other people were injured.\" (World Book Online Behind the Headlines) Read more about the events at Tiananmen Square.
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