It is a commonplace among scholars that the Internet plays an increasingly important role in Chinese public life (Hassid, 2012). This includes a strong focus on the articulation of an alternative political discourse (Gleiss, 2015). According to a nationwide survey, typical Chinese netizens are “politically opinionated, supportive of democratic rules and critical about party-state” (Lei, 2011).
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Lin, Z., Hamm, A., & Reinhardt, S. (2018). Political Communication Chinese Style: The Elite Network in State-Regulated Sina Weibo. In Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia (pp. 85–111). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-20700-7_5
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