China The Historical Geopolitics of the Chinese AI Initiative April 10, 2018 0 Written by Cameran Ashraf. In July 2017 China released an ambitious plan calling for significant investment in AI development within the country. The stated goal…
China China’s cyber sovereignty: Paper tiger or rising dragon? January 15, 2018 0 Written by Scott Shackelford. In its fourth annual meeting, the 2017 World Internet Conference (WIC) has taken on a decidedly more global mantle. Held in…
China New (and Not So New) Trends in China’s Online Censorship November 7, 2017 1 Written by Rongbin Han. Scholars who study Internet politics in China have long recognized two important features of the state censorship system. First, it is…
China Why you should care about China’s VPN crackdown August 29, 2017 2 Written by Omair Uthmani. Internet censors have a new target. The Chinese and Russian governments recently announced plans to block the use of “virtual private…
Uncategorized Indie Music, Music Festivals, and the Performance Economy in China July 27, 2017 0 Written by Anthony Fung. Who are the new popular Chinese singers? Music record companies that had conventionally produced commercial popular music are now almost inactive,…
News Room for Debate? News and Public Opinion in China May 4, 2017 0 Written by Ya-Wen Lei. Common indices used by social scientists to measure levels of freedom and to classify political regimes suggest that civil and political…
China E-sports in China: History, Issues and Challenges. November 10, 2016 1 Written by Lu Zhouxiang. E-sports refers to competitive tournaments of video games among mainly professional gamers. A 2015 research report produced by games market research…
China A Decade of Blogging in China August 31, 2015 0 Written by Giorgio Strafella and Daria Berg. The effects of blogging and Internet use on Chinese politics and society have been a hotly debated topic…
China Taking stock of the Chinese blogosphere June 30, 2015 0 Written by Shaohua Guo. “China is not yet a country that excels in the art of writing (shuxie, to express feelings and write), but the…
China China’s Media in Cross Currents: Implications for Critical Journalism June 29, 2015 1 Written by Rongbin Han. To a large extent, the development of Chinese media, particularly critical media, depends on the interaction between market forces, state control,…
