This book not only effectively summarizes the major points of previous relevant studies but also thoughtfully examines issues that have not been adequately covered by other scholars and some that have not been raised before.

The eight chapters of the book investigate five interrelated factors that are closely related to online activism: state power, culture, market, civil society, and transnationalism. The book makes several important contributions to the study of the Internet and its impact on Chinese society. Firstly, it provides substantial information on two axes: the synchronic axis and the diachronic axis. On the synchronic axis, Yang uses the multi-interactionism approach to examine the five distinct but interrelated factors. On the diachronic axis, the book presents a set of systematic data that effectively documents changes in online activism in China. Yang examines more than 70 cases that involve hundreds of civic groups, online communities, Web sites, and so on....

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