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About Weigui Fang

Weigui Fang is research associate at the media-sinological research project ‘The Internet in China’ at the University Trier, Germany.

Articles by Weigui Fang

Wednesday 2nd July

Reflections on China's internet boom

Weigui Fang, 2 July 2003
A persistent western narrative views the internet boom in China as a vehicle for the “opening of a closed society” that is hitherto shielded by an informational “Chinese Wall.” The impenetrable wall may always have been a fiction; in any case, the information explosion of Chinese cyberspace challenges stereotype and heralds the emergence of a new social force: public opinion.
Sunday 13th April

China's web war

Weigui Fang, 13 April 2003
Iraq is the latest battlefield in China’s war of websites. Minutes and seconds – and freedom from political censorship – are the weapons of commercial websites who these days attract staggering numbers of users as well as advertising dollars.
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