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As a recently emerged information service on the Chinese Internet, online public opinion analysis (网络舆情分析) is a type of service to monitor, assess, and synthesize online public communication through automated software and trained individuals. This article provides an industry overview of the rise of online public opinion in China and examines the political economy of the People's Public Opinion Office. Second, this article looks at the marketing of the profession in news coverage, training materials, as well as published interviews with People's Public Opinion Office's managers and experts. Through a close reading of People's Public Opinion Office's published annual reports from 2007 to 2016 focusing on the issue of online rumor, this article delineates how the identification and prognostics of online rumor evolves with the State's anti-rumor campaign that aims to forestall or pacify collective action. In sum, this article sets to examine the professionalization and industrialization of online public opinion analysis as a part of the co-evolutionary dynamics between the state and civil society in China. Using the government's anti-rumor campaign as an example, this article critically investigates the mediating role online public opinion analysis plays in the "sausage factory" of public opinion gauging and monitoring, which sets the basis upon which policymaking process is guided and justified.

This paper examines an often-overlooked yet significant dimension in the globalisation of Chinese internet companies and their tight relationships with global financial institutions and networks. Since the early 2000s, waves of Chinese internet companies have gone public. What this means is that internet companies in China are increasingly relying on and competing in the global capital market to fund their rampant expansion.This paper analyses the role of finance institutions and networks in the globalisation of nine Chinese internet companies from three vantage points; firstly, these companies' use of investment banks as underwriters for IPOs; secondly, their carefully designed ownership structures, including offshore holdings and Variable Interest Entities (VIE) structure; and lastly the ascending power of financial institutions in the ownership and management of these internet companies. By examining the role finance networks and institutions played in the globalisation of Chinese internet companies, this paper unveils the capitalist logic and shifting power relations at play in the political economy of the Chinese internet.