Chinese Authoritarianism in the Information Age

Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver and founding editor of the Journal of Contemporary China.

• Part I: Internet Technology and Cyber China Chapter 1 How "Networked Authoritarianism" was operationalized in China: Methods and Procedures of Public Opinion Control Wen-Hsuan Tsai Chapter 2 Cyber China, Upgrading Propaganda, Public Opinion Work and Social Management for the 21st Century Rogier Creemers Chapter 3 Internet Exposure and Political Beliefs among Educated Youth in China Shiru Wang Chapter 4 Does ICT Diffusion Increase Government Responsiveness in Autocracies? An empirical assessment of the political implications of China's Internet Paul Minard Chapter 5 Consultative Authoritarianism: The drafting of China’s Internet Security Law and E-Commerce Law Jinting Deng, Pinxin Liu Part II: Public Opinion and Information Management Chapter 6 Public Focusing Events as Catalysts: An Empirical Study of "Pressure-Induced Legislations" in China Xin Zhang, Xiaodong Ding Chapter 7 Information Management during Crisis Events: A Case Study of Beijing Floods of 2012 Maria Repnikova Chapter 8 Revisiting Political Wariness in China’s Public Opinion Surveys: Experimental Evidence on Responses to Politically Sensitive Questions Xuchuan Lei & Jie Lu Chapter 9 Distortion and Credibility within China’s Internal Information System Kezhou Xiao, Brantly Womack Part III: Media Control and Policy Consequences Chapter 10 Power Structure and Media Autonomy in China: The Case of Southern Weekend Xia Ying, Bing Guan and Gong Cheng Chapter 11 Shanzhai Media Culture: Failed Intervention to the Disingenuous Neoliberal Logic of Chinese Media Jian Xu Chapter 12 Support for Propaganda: Chinese perceptions of public service advertising Ashley Esarey, Daniela Stockmann & Jie Zhang Chapter 13 Acquiring Political Information in Contemporary China: Various Media Channels and Their Respective Correlates Jie Lu Chapter 14 Media and Chinese foreign policy Jianwei Wang and Xiaojie Wang