Michael Chase & James Mulvenon — Political Use of the Internet in China (2002)

Record type: Institutional research / scholarly secondary source
Authors: Michael Chase and James C. Mulvenon
Chapter: “Political Use of the Internet in China”
Report: You’ve Got Dissent! Chinese Dissident Use of the Internet and Beijing’s Counter-Strategies
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Year: 2002
Edition: 1
Pages: 1–44

Why this source matters

RAND’s report analyzes how Chinese dissidents inside and outside China used the Internet for communication, organization, information distribution, and transnational advocacy, and how the Chinese authorities responded. The work includes a Free China Movement reference and belongs in the evidence base for FCM’s early Internet-era history.

Evidence classification

Independent institutional secondary source. It is particularly relevant to research on dissident Internet infrastructure, overseas networks, censorship circumvention, and the relationship between organizations such as FCM and the wider online democracy movement.

Bibliographic links

JSTOR chapter record · JSTOR report record

Related Free China records

FCM Media Archive · Great Firewall & Internet Persecution in Mainland China · VIP Reference Historical Archive · Scholarly & Institutional References to the Free China Movement