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Author Ng, Jason Q., 1984- author.

Title Blocked on weibo : what gets suppressed on China's version of Twitter (and why) / Jason Q. Ng.

Publication Info. New York : The New Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 224 pages)
Summary Lists over one hundred words and phrases that are blocked on China's most popular social networking site, offering possible explanations as to why these terms are deemed so damaging or dangerous by the government.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction -- Author's Note -- 1. #government# #CCP# #politics# #nationalism# -- Jiang Zemin -- Eight Elders -- Liaison Office -- Coup d'état -- Shanghai Gang -- Operation Yellowbird -- Boycott Japanese goods / Boycott Carrefour -- Retired Emperor -- Princelings the New Left -- West Ujimqin -- Article 23 -- February Countercurrent -- Constitutional democracy -- Minority problem -- Red terror -- Snow lion flag -- New Western Hills Symposium -- The Union of Chinese Nationalists -- 2. #dissent# #censorship# #justice# -- 50 Cent Party -- The Four Gentlemen -- Over the Great Firewall -- Ultrasurf -- Combining Cyrillic Millions -- WikiLeaks -- State Council Information Office -- Democracy Wall -- Goddess of Democracy -- Pangu -- Victoria -- May 35 -- Green Dam Girl -- criminalization of speech -- constitutional court -- April 26 editorial -- Internet commentators -- Internet monitoring -- 3. #sex# #drugs# #immorality# -- One-night stand -- Rare beauty -- Partner swapping -- Sexual intercourse -- Meow / tits -- Mark Six -- Dew point -- Aphrodisiac -- Foot fetish -- Nude photograph -- Without hair -- Panty hose -- People eat people -- Lesbian -- Seven deadly sins -- Incest -- Marijuana -- Demerol -- Roofied -- Inject -- 4. #people# -- Xu Qinxian -- Jiang Yanyong -- Wen Yunsong -- Liu Binyan -- Peng Liyuan -- Fang Lizhi -- Ma Mingxin -- Liu Di -- Wu Yi -- Dinh Bo Linh -- Feng Zhenghu -- Kim Lee -- Zhang Xiaoyu -- Sun Myung Moon -- Wang Wenyi -- Fei Xiaotong -- Lei Jieqiong -- Jimmy Lai -- Milarepa -- Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme -- 5. #scandals# #disasters# #rumors# -- Downfall incident -- Wan Wuyi -- The Great Flood of August 1975 -- Obituary -- Bo Xilai -- Chen Xitong -- Mein Kampf -- Shangcai -- Unnatural death -- Rich woman -- Leave a political party -- Song Zuying -- Jinzhou Prison -- Sujiatun -- 6. #information# #media# -- Open Magazine -- Parade -- Satellite television -- Labor strike -- Organizer -- Charter -- Twitter -- Never forget -- Empty stool -- Flash mob -- "The Flower of Freedom," March Student Movement -- May Fourth Movement -- Student leader -- Dynamic China -- Radio Free Asia / Voice of America -- Independent Chinese PEN -- Boxun.com -- 7. #security# #violence# #suppression# -- Tank -- Massacre -- Eastern Lightning -- Plain clothes -- Persecution -- The September 11 attacks -- Blockade -- Machete -- Hidden microphone -- Kashi / Kashgar -- HMX -- Bloodstained housing map -- Wound -- Leak -- East Chang'an Avenue -- Sino-Russian Secret Treaty -- violent demolition -- Tibetan protest -- Cobalt-60 -- KJ 200 -- Inciting subversion . of state power -- 8. #misc# #why?# -- Hair bacon -- Calico cat -- Canadian French -- Islam -- Hoobastank -- Lucky Star -- Warlord -- Medicine patch flag -- Sky burial -- Sensitive -- Communist dog -- Dry your mother -- Zhina -- River crab -- Sacred Heart Cathedral -- Flood control monument -- Bloomberg -- CAPTCHA -- Conquered nation -- Wohler / Villar -- Supplement -- Black angel -- Color of leopard -- Chinese Words Used, English Translation, and Weibo Block Status -- Acknowledgments.
Note Print version record.
Subject Censorship -- China.
Internet searching -- China.
Internet -- Censorship -- China.
Internet -- Political aspects -- China.
Freedom of information -- China.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Censorship. (OCoLC)fst00850568
Freedom of information. (OCoLC)fst00934017
Internet -- Censorship. (OCoLC)fst00977185
Internet -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00977197
Internet searching. (OCoLC)fst00977289
China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
Other Form: Print version: Ng, Jason Q., 1984- Blocked on weibo. New York : The New Press, [2013] 9781595588715 (DLC) 2013010628 (OCoLC)807025290
ISBN 9781595588852 (electronic bk.)
159558885X (electronic bk.)
1306435145 (electronic bk.)
9781306435147 (electronic bk.)
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