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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Résumé

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

Texte suppl.

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Ya-Wen Lei
• Edition: Princeton University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780691166865
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16686-5
• Pages: 304
• Thèmes: Princeton Studies in Contempor; Princeton Studies in Contemporary China
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences de la Terre > Géographie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; 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