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The Rise of Online Public Opinion in the People's Republic of China
- China: An International Journal
- NUS Press Pte Ltd
- Volume 3, Number 1, March 2005
- pp. 119-130
- 10.1353/chn.2005.0001
- Article
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Are Chinese online forums a promising sign of the rise of a reasoning civil society, or are they merely meeting places for the rash and politically extreme? It would seem that politically-interested citizens on the Chinese internet are indeed driving public opinion, and ultimately, policy-making.