Other digital china - Jing Wang

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• A scholar and activist tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies.
• The Chinese government has increased digital censorship under Xi Jinping.
• Why?
• Because online activism works; it is perceived as a threat in halls of power.
• In The Other Digital China, Jing Wang, a scholar at MIT and an activist in China, shatters the view that citizens of nonliberal societies are either brainwashed or complicit, either imprisoned for speaking out or paralyzed by fear.
• Instead, Wang shows the impact of a less confrontational kind of activism.
• Whereas Westerners tend to equate action with open criticism and street revolutions, Chinese activists are building an invisible and quiet coalition to bring incremental progress to their society.
• Many Chinese change makers practice nonconfrontational activism.
• They prefer to walk around obstacles rather than break through them, tactfully navigating between what is lawful and what is illegitimate.
• The Other Digital China describes this massive gray zone where NGOs, digital entrepreneurs, university students, IT companies like Tencent and Sina, and tech communities operate.