Contentious Public Sphere - Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China

About the author

Ya-Wen Lei is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and an affiliate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.

Summary

Since the mid-2000s, public opinion and debate in China have become increasingly common and consequential, despite the ongoing censorship of speech and regulation of civil society. How did this happen? In The Contentious Public Sphere, Ya-Wen Lei shows how the Chinese state drew on law, the media, and the Internet to further an authoritarian projec

Additional text

"Winner of the 2018 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Book Award, Human Rights Section of the American Sociological Association"

Product details

• Authors: Ya-Wen Lei
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780691166865
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16686-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Princeton Studies in Contempor; Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Political structure & processes, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms, Ethical Issues: Censorship, Black & Asian Studies, Political structure and processes, Civics and citizenship