This article investigates egao—technology-enabled online parody in contemporary China.
Egao is a site where issues of power struggle, class reconsolidation, social …

Internet parody, called egao in Chinese, has become a fad in China during the past few
years. Keyword searches on Google. com and Baidu. com, the largest search engine in …

This article examines e gao (online spoofs) as a popular form of political expression which
has recently emerged on the Chinese internet. I first introduce a cultural approach to internet …

The ever-expanding communicative space online has provided Chinese individuals with
unprecedented access to an exploding base of user-generated content and has …

With the declining number of Internet protest events in recent years, online activism in China
has suffered a setback. This is due significantly to the implementation of new forms of …

This chapter wants to argue for a better capture of the dynamics of cyber China, and for an
acknowledgment of her cultural-historical roots. In discussions of cyber China, two …

Despite widespread consensus that China's digital revolution was sure to bring about
massive democratic reforms, such changes have not come to pass. While scholars and …

This chapter extends Guobin Yang's 2003 seminal article on the coevolution of the Internet
and civil society in China. 1 It argues the Internet has facilitated, on the one hand, the …

This article analyzes the Internet-based campaign for the “shanzhai” Spring Festival Gala in
connection with the rise of “digital democracy” and the burgeoning economy of grassroots …

The second decade of the new millennium in China has witnessed official media's high-
profile endeavors to “occupy” online sphere. Existing scholarship has examined, for …