Citizen Publications in China Before the Internet [Hardcover]

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.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

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.