Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

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A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in China As authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be easily evaded by savvy internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship th

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"Co-winner of the 2019 Goldsmith Book Prize for Academic Books, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School"
"One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018"

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Margaret E. Roberts is associate professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego.