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Resistance in Digital China

The Southern Weekly Incident

By: Sally Xiaojin Chen

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Resistance in Digital China

The Southern Weekly Incident

By: Sally Xiaojin Chen

By investigating the Southern Weekly Incident, in which the prominent Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly was censored by the provincial government's official propaganda department, Resistance in Digital China examines how Chinese citizens engage with the internet to facilitate social change and engage in resistance. Chen's in-depth analysis of the Southern Weekly Incident ties together overlapping debates in internet studies, Chinese studies, social movement studies, political communication, and cultural studies to discuss issues of the public sphere, collective action, connective action, emotions, and embodiment. Resistance in Digital China not only provides a theoretical framework for understanding how the internet may promote civic participation and a democratic culture in China, but also demonstrates a useful methodology for conducting an in-depth empirical examination of a significant on- and off-line act of resistance. Fruitfully combining 45 interviews with key players in the Southern Weekly Incident with largely Western-based communications theory, Chen develops an understanding of the Chinese public sphere as “in formation,” at once invoked and rejected by Chinese citizens.

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150133767X

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Resistance in Digital China

The Southern Weekly Incident

By: Sally Xiaojin Chen

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Resistance in Digital China

The Southern Weekly Incident

By: Sally Xiaojin Chen

By investigating the Southern Weekly Incident, in which censorship of the prominent Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly triggered mass online contention in Chinese society, Resistance in Digital China examines how Chinese people engage in resistance on digital networks whilst cautiously safeguarding their life under authoritarian rule. Chen's in-depth analysis of the Southern Weekly Incident ties together overlapping debates in internet studies, Chinese studies, social movement studies, political communication, and cultural studies to discuss issues of civic connectivity, emotions, embodiment, and the construction of a public sphere in digital China. Resistance in Digital China demonstrates a valuable methodology for conducting in-depth empirical examination of an act of resistance in order to explore political, cultural, and sociological meanings of Chinese people's resistance within party limits. Fruitfully combining 45 interviews with key players in the Southern Weekly Incident with largely Western-based communications theory, Chen develops an understanding of the ongoing formation of the Chinese public sphere as elite-led and emotional, at once invoked and rejected by Chinese citizens.

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1501337688

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