Let 100 Voices Speak: How the Internet is Transforming China and Changing Everything
Introduction -- 1. Cover-ups and Uncoverings -- What disasters reveal -- Grass-roots Weibo celebrities -- The human-flesh search-how Weibo brought down the powerful -- Crowdsourcing the fight against government corruption -- In the fight against the government, there is a fight within the government -- 2. Censorship Is the Mother of Subversion -- A look to the past -- What about Weibo? -- A censored internet: good or bad? -- "Fuck your mother" and the anti-censorship movement -- The digital is political -- To the left and right -- Refusing to accept censorship: the Reincarnation Party -- Crowdsourcing activism: the Food-delivery Party -- Same-city dinners -- 3. Tectonic Shifts: Counterculture Online -- Great expectations: who defines success? -- Birth of a counterculture -- Cash to burn -- Full frontal defiance: Weibo activism -- Naked feminists, bared blades -- Fighting back against abusers -- China's favorite porn star -- Out of the closet, onto the web -- Wedding bells -- A study in slash -- [REDACTED] -- Elementary, my dear, dear Watson -- 4. Not in My Backyard: From Screens to Streets -- Not on my bookshelf: pushing back against "brainwashing" education -- "Patriotic" or propaganda? -- Pollution: the smog that broke the camel's back -- Choking on smog: the Beijing blues -- The Southern Weekly incident -- 5. I Fought the Law -- Weibo and the court of public opinion -- The mother: Tang Hui -- The kebab vendor: Xia Junfeng -- The watermelon vendor: Deng Zhengjia -- The rights-defense movement and the New Citizens' Movement -- 6. The Crackdown and the Chinese Dream -- Silence in the flood: triumphs of censorship in a post-crackdown China -- Entertaining ourselves to death -- Backlash within the system -- The Chinese dream -- No more Mr. Nice Guy: from public-opinion guidance to the public-opinion "struggle" -- Let 100 flowers bloom -- Notes