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Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction .......................................................................................1
1.1 Background ................................................................................................1
1.2 Research questions ....................................................................................2
1.3 Introduction of methodology ....................................................................7
1.4 Book structure ............................................................................................8
Chapter 2. Literature review .............................................................................11
2.1 Introduction ..............................................................................................11
2.2 The notion of the public sphere and the development of civil society in
China ........................................................................................................11
2.3 Conceptualising the Chinese internet as a quasi-public sphere ..............19
2.4 ‘Information regime’ and the role of the internet ....................................24
2.5 Analytical framework: the triangular structure of the internet in China .27
2.6 Summary ..................................................................................................48
Chapter 3. Contextual Background ..................................................................50
3.1 Introduction ..............................................................................................50
3.2 Internet development in China .................................................................50
3.3 The era of Web 2.0 ...................................................................................58
3.4 Comparison of different online platforms ...............................................72
