Citizen Publications in China Before the Internet

This book presents the first panoramic study of minkan (citizen publications) in China before the Internet. This recent history of citizen publications contributes to the reclamation of a lost past of resistance. It is an exercise in remembering a past that has been marginalized by official history and recovering ideas obliterated by state power.

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Shao Jiang, a former prisoner of conscience for his active role in the 1989 pro-democracy movement in China, is now a committed activist-scholar who lives and works in exile in London, U.K. His academic interests focus on politics and media, social movement, democratization, autonomy, sovereignty, self-determination, international human rights mechanisms, and civil society.

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Contents List of Illustrations Abstract Preface 1. Minkan as a Way of Resistance 2. Re-emergence 3. Polarities 4. The Democracy Wall 5. Development and Transformation 6. Conclusion Appendices