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 ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users. In Censored, Margaret Ro

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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"
"[T]he clearest and most convincing explanation of how information is controlled in todays China."---Ian Johnson, New York Review of Books
"[A] groundbreaking book . . . although it wears Robertss deep knowledge lightly, Censored represents the current state of the art in Chinese internet studies. . . . This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about the free flow of information."---Jonathan Sullivan, New Scientist
"As part of a growing body of literature on the role of the state and civil society, the arguments made in this book demonstrate the China case has wide applicability to the study of censorship in a variety of other countries."---Carrie Liu Currier, Journal of Chinese Political Science

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