Table of Contents

Introduction: The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China
—Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang
Chapter 1: The Coevolution of the Internet, (Un)Civil Society, and Authoritarianism in China
—Min Jiang
Chapter 2: Connectivity, Engagement, and Witnessing on China's Weibo
—Marina Svensson
Chapter 3: New Media Empowerment and State-Society Relations in China
—Shi and Guobin Yang
Chapter 4: The Privilege of Speech in New Media: Conceptualizing China's Communications Law in the Internet Age
—Rogier Creemers
Chapter 5: Embedding Law into Politics in China's Networked Public Sphere
—Ya-Wen Lei and Daniel Xiaodan Zhou
Chapter 6: Microbloggers' Battle for Legal Justice in China
—Anne S. Y. Cheung
Chapter 7: Public Opinion and Chinese Foreign Policy: New Media and Old Puzzles
—Dalei Jie
Chapter 8: Social Media, Nationalist Protests, and China's Japan Policy: The Diaoyu Islands Controversy, 2012-13
—Peter Gries, Derek Steiger, and Wang Tao
Chapter 9: Going Out and Texting Home: New Media and China's Citizens Abroad
—James Reilly
Chapter 10: Images of the DPRK in China's New Media: How Foreign Policy Attitudes Are Connected to Domestic Ideologies in China
—Chuanjie Zhang
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

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The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China explores the changing relationship between China's Internet and social media and its society, politics, legal system, and foreign relations.

About the Author

Jacques deLisle is Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is coeditor of China Under Hu Jintao and Political Changes in Taiwan Under Ma Ying-jeou. With Avery Goldstein, he is coeditor of China's Challenges, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Avery Goldstein is David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations, Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Rising to the Challenge: China's Grand Strategy and International Security and coeditor of The Nexus of Economics, Security, and International Relations in East Asia. With Jacques deLisle, he is coeditor of China's Challenges, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Guobin Yang is Associate Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online and editor of China's Contested Internet.

Reviews

"The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China is the first book-length study of the Chinese Internet after the social media revolution that completely changed the contours and possibilities of Chinese cyberspace. The individual chapters provide a diverse range of empirical and conceptual insights, and, taken as a whole, the volume stands alongside the major publications in the field."
*Jonathan Sullivan, University of Nottingham*