Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China
by
Ya-Wen Lei
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
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,...