{"id":247,"date":"2005-05-09T22:49:05","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T02:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/09\/china-internet-sleeping-giant\/"},"modified":"2005-05-09T22:49:05","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T02:49:05","slug":"china-internet-sleeping-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/09\/china-internet-sleeping-giant\/","title":{"rendered":"China Internet Sleeping Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5047'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/netchina.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"270\" align=\"left\">The always amazing <a href=\"http:\/\/rconversation.blogs.com\/rconversation\/\">Rebecca<br \/>\n        MacKinnon<\/a> points to an <a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2005\/04\/xiao_qiang_cont.php\">excellent<br \/>\n        essay<\/a> by Xiao Qiang originally<br \/>\n      written for the Wall Street Journal, about  the role of technology in<br \/>\n    China&#8217;s recent anti-Japanese protests.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca opines: &quot;The government certainly allowed these protests to happen,<br \/>\n      and even encourages the rise of anti-foreign and especially anti-Japanese<br \/>\n      nationalism in Chinese cyberspace as a way of deflecting people&#8217;s frustrations<br \/>\n      away from their own government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The always amazing Rebecca MacKinnon points to an excellent essay by Xiao Qiang originally written for the Wall Street Journal, about the role of technology in China&#8217;s recent anti-Japanese protests. Rebecca opines: &quot;The government certainly allowed these protests to happen, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/09\/china-internet-sleeping-giant\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}