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The Great Firewall of China : How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffiths, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--Political aspects--China.
- Internet.
- Freedom of speech--China.
- Freedom of speech.
- Censorship--China.
- Censorship.
- Internet--Political aspects.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (441 pages)
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Author's note
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- Map
- Introduction: Early warnings
- Part 1: Wall
- 1. Protests: Solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen
- 2. Over the wall: China's first email and the rise of the online censor
- 3. Nailing the jello: Chinese democracy and the Great Firewall
- 4. Enemy at the gates: How fear of Falun Gong boosted the Firewall
- 5. Searching for an opening: Google, Yahoo and Silicon Valley's moral failing in China
- Part 2: Shield
- 6. Along came a spider: Lu Wei reins in the Chinese internet
- 7. Peak traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama online
- 8. Filtered: The Firewall catches up with
- 9. Jumping the wall: FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong's fight against the censors
- 10. Called to account: Silicon Valley's reckoning on Capitol Hill
- Part 3: Sword
- 11. Uyghurs online: Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur internet
- 12. Shutdown: How to take 20 million people offline
- 13. Ghosts in the machine: Chinese hackers expand the Firewall's reach
- 14. NoGuGe: The ignominious end of Google China
- 15. The social network: Weibo and the last free-speech platform
- 16. Gorillas in the mist: Exposing China's hackers to the world
- Part 4: War
- 17. Caught: The death of the Uyghur internet
- 18. Key opinion leader: How Chinese trolls go after dissidents overseas
- 19. Root and stem: The internet is more vulnerable than you think
- 20. The censor at the UN: China's undermining of global internet freedoms
- 21. Sovereignty: When Xi Jinping came for the internet
- 22. Friends in Moscow: The Great Firewall goes west
- 23. Plane crash: China helps Russia bring Telegram to heel
- 24. One app to rule them all: How WeChat opened up new frontiers of surveillance and censorship
- 25. Buttocks: Uganda's internet blackouts follow China's lead
- 26. Swatting flies: Google's failed attempt to get back into China
- 27. Propaganda war: Beijing's attempts to control the narrative over Xinjiang
- 28. Fighting rumours: How the coronavirus pandemic exposed the danger of the Great Firewall
- Epilogue: The Great Firewall looms over Hong Kong
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Griffiths, James The Great Firewall of China
- ISBN:
- 9781350257924
- 1350257923
- Publisher Number:
- 40030820513
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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