This article explores authoritarian responsiveness in the digital era using data from China's
most popular Internet forum. In addition to some limited evidence of the nature of the …

In China, celebrities can dominate public discourse and shape popular culture, but they are
under the state's close gaze. Recent studies have revealed how the state disciplines and co …

Public discourse under authoritarian rule is not monolithic. Yet how popular rhetoric
engages with the hegemonic rhetoric in the same discursive space remains understudied …

In this essay, we draw on the history of internet-based local media at the county level in
China to investigate the social implications of the internet for the local society. We take a …

This paper content analyzed 1584 news samples from 10 newspapers in China in 2012 and
2018 with the aim of exploring how the style of news has changed concurrent with the rapid …

In 2020, hundreds of sub-national government officials and Chinese Communist Party
cadres undertook a months-long experiment in livestreaming and social commerce. These …

The China Quarterly welcomes the submission of manuscripts from scholars, including
postgraduate students, on all aspects of contemporary China, including Taiwan, Hong Kong …