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East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
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Computing, Information & Communications Technology in China
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General Information Impact on Society, Culture, & Politics Internet Businesses & e-Commerce
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General Information
CCIDNet (in Chinese & English) Special reports on information & communication technology, news, & market research provided by "one of ... China's top-tier information service conglomerates"
Content-Rich China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC)
Chinese; English
"nonprofit-making organization of administration and service, performing duties of National Internet Network Information Center": reports; surveys; documents; China Internet Network Yearbook; evolution of the Internet in China
China's Digital Future: Advancing the Understanding of China's Information Revolution 2004 conference co-sponsored by USC's Annenberg School & the Berkeley China Internet Project and New Media Program, archived as streaming video
China's Internet Revolution Mark Glaser's essay & interview with Xiao Qiang, director of the Berkeley China Internet Project (Online Journalism Review, Nov. 13, 2003)
Interfax:China News related to China's information & communications technology, provided by Interfax Information Services
A PRC Net Good: Guides to Internet Resources February 2000 report from U.S. Embassy Beijing on the "continuing explosive growth of the Chinese Internet ... making massive amounts of information about all aspects of Chinese politics, economics, science & technology readily available"
Semiannual Survey Reports on the Development of China's Internet
Chinese; English
China Internet Network Information Center's reports since Oct. 1997
Kids, Cadres & "Cultists" All Love It: Growing Influence of the Internet in China A March 2001 report from U.S. Embassy Beijing
ZDNet China Ziff-Davis computer news & features in Chinese
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Impact on Society, Culture, & Politics
Between Democracy and Development: the Impact of New Information Technologies on Civil Society in China Paper by Guobin Yang (Social Science Research Council (SSRC), PDF format)
The 'Blog' Revolution Sweeps Across China Xiao Qiang on blogging & Internet censorship in China (New Scientist, Nov. 24, 2004)
Blogs are Strangling Chinese Communism Nicholas D. Kristof's editorial on "The collision between the Internet and Chinese authorities" (International Herald Tribune, May 25, 2005)
China and the Net Bobson Wong's research articles & compilation of related news, laws, documents, & links
Content-Rich China Digital News "a collaborative news weblog about emerging information and communication technologies and their impact on Chinese society," created by created by faculty and students of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and School of Information Management and Systems
China in Cyberspace Ian Buruma's essay in the New York Review of Books (Nov. 1999)
China's 'Big Mamas' in a Quandary Paul Mooney on the dilemma of the Chinese government "Caught between the urge to repress and to make use of the Internet" (YaleGlobal, Apr. 12, 2004)
China's Internet Dictatorship Ma Jian on China's Golden Shield Project to control access to the Internet (Korea Herald, May 18, 2005)
China's Internet Censorship (in Chinese) News & analysis from Beijing Spring
China's Internet Information Skirmish A January 2000 report from U.S. Embassy Beijing on the "information skirmish" between the Chinese government filtering information & dissidents mailing electronic periodicals into China
China's Net Watchdogs: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Liyuan Lu on "China's Net citizens [as] good watchdogs protesting political oppression, injustice and unfair practices" (The Straits Times, April 3, 2004)
Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China Study by Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School
The Great Firewall of China Becky Hogge on Net censorship by the Chinese government (openDemocracy, May 20, 2005)
Honker Union of China (in Chinese) Alliance of hackers dedicated to the "protection of national sovereignty & maintenance of peace with justice"
The Internet and the Development of Control Systems in China: English; Chinese He Qinglian (author of The Pitfalls of Modernization) on Chinese government's "Golden Shield" project (Oct. 2003; PDF format)
Internet Filtering in China in 2004-2005 OpenNet Initiative's testing of "China's Internet filtering of web content, blog postings, and e-mail correspondences" (Apr. 2005; PDF format)
Internet Under Surveillance 2004: China From Reporters sans frontires's 2004 report on "Obstacles to the free flow of information online"
National Backbone Internet Blocking in the People's Republic of China Analysis by Nart Villeneuve for Project C, "a censorship enumeration project that explores the relationship between censorship, technology and resistance" (PDF format)
NPR : China & the Internet Rob Gifford's 3-part series on the "economic, social and political effects of the Internet on China" (Real or Windows Media format; Feb. 2005)
People's Republic of China: Controls Tighten as Internet Activism Grows Amnesty International update on 2002 reports on Internet in China (28 January 2004)
State control of the Internet in China An Amnesty International document (Nov. 2002)
Virtual Censorship in China: Keeping the Gate between the Cyberspaces Jack Linchuan Qiu's essay in International Journal of Communications Law and Policy 4 (Winter 1999-2000)
Wired for Modernization in China Chapter 2 of Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule, by Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor C. Boas (Jan. 2003)
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Internet Businesses & e-Commerce
China: Investing in the Internet An AsiaTODAY special report (June 23, 2000) on "the growth & challenges of investing in the Internet in China"
China's Internet: Boon to Reform or Just a Quick Buck? An Online Journalism Review article by James Ryan (modified: 2002-04-04)
Dangdang (in Chinese) The biggest online seller of Chinese books, music recordings & videos
E-commerce in China An AsiaTODAY special report (Jan. 12, 2000) offering "a comprehensive review of news, reports & sites that examine the companies, the industry developments & the regulatory and legal issues that are affecting Internet-enabled China, with links to top-rated Mainland Chinese e-commerce sites"
Listing of e-Commerce Sites 电子商务网 (in Chinese) Listing with Alexa ranking
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