The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 385 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 369-373, index
ISBN 978-1-78699-535-3
Signature commbox: 313:70-Rights 2019
I. WALL
1 Protests: solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen, 15
2 Over the wall: China's first email and the rise of the online censor, 23
3 Nailing the jello: Chinese democracy and the Great Firewall, 35
4 Enemy at the gates: how fear of Falun Gong boosted the Firewall, 45
5 Searching for an opening: Google, Yahoo and Silicon Valley's moral failing in China, 61
II. SHIELD
6 Along came a spider: Lu Wei reins in the Chinese internet, 71
7 Peak traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama online, 83
8 Filtered: The firewall catches up with Da Cankao, 89
9 Jumping the wall: FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong's fight against the censors, 95
10 Called to account: Silicon Valley's reckoning on Capitol Hill, 115
III. SWORD
11 Uyghurs online: Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur internet, 131
12 Shutdown: how to take 20 million people offline, 143
13 Ghosts in the machine: Chinese hackers expand the Firewall's reach, 159
14 NoGuGe: The ignominious end of Google China, 165
15 The social network: Weibo and the last free-speech platform, 175
16 Gorillas in the mist: Exposing China's hackers to the world, 185
IV. WAR
17 Caught: The death of the Uyghur internet, 195
18 Key opinion leader: How Chinese trolls go after dissidents overseas, 203
19 Root and stem: The internet is more vulnerable than you think, 217
20 The censor at the UN: China's undermining of global internet freedoms, 227
21 Sovereignty: When Xi Jinping came for the internet, 239
22 Friends in Moscow: The Great Firewall goes west, 247
23 Plane crash: China helps Russia bring Telegram to heel, 259
24 One app to rule them all: How WeChat opened up new frontiers of surveillance and censorship, 275
25 Buttocks: Uganda's internet blackouts follow Beijing's lead, 285
26 Swatting flies: Google’s failed attempt to get back into China, 307
27 Propaganda war : Beijing’s attempts to control the narrative over Xinjiang, 315
28 Fighting rumours : How the coronavirus pandemic exposed the danger of the Great Firewall, 323
Epilogue : The Great Firewall looms over Hong Kong, 335
1 Protests: solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen, 15
2 Over the wall: China's first email and the rise of the online censor, 23
3 Nailing the jello: Chinese democracy and the Great Firewall, 35
4 Enemy at the gates: how fear of Falun Gong boosted the Firewall, 45
5 Searching for an opening: Google, Yahoo and Silicon Valley's moral failing in China, 61
II. SHIELD
6 Along came a spider: Lu Wei reins in the Chinese internet, 71
7 Peak traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama online, 83
8 Filtered: The firewall catches up with Da Cankao, 89
9 Jumping the wall: FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong's fight against the censors, 95
10 Called to account: Silicon Valley's reckoning on Capitol Hill, 115
III. SWORD
11 Uyghurs online: Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur internet, 131
12 Shutdown: how to take 20 million people offline, 143
13 Ghosts in the machine: Chinese hackers expand the Firewall's reach, 159
14 NoGuGe: The ignominious end of Google China, 165
15 The social network: Weibo and the last free-speech platform, 175
16 Gorillas in the mist: Exposing China's hackers to the world, 185
IV. WAR
17 Caught: The death of the Uyghur internet, 195
18 Key opinion leader: How Chinese trolls go after dissidents overseas, 203
19 Root and stem: The internet is more vulnerable than you think, 217
20 The censor at the UN: China's undermining of global internet freedoms, 227
21 Sovereignty: When Xi Jinping came for the internet, 239
22 Friends in Moscow: The Great Firewall goes west, 247
23 Plane crash: China helps Russia bring Telegram to heel, 259
24 One app to rule them all: How WeChat opened up new frontiers of surveillance and censorship, 275
25 Buttocks: Uganda's internet blackouts follow Beijing's lead, 285
26 Swatting flies: Google’s failed attempt to get back into China, 307
27 Propaganda war : Beijing’s attempts to control the narrative over Xinjiang, 315
28 Fighting rumours : How the coronavirus pandemic exposed the danger of the Great Firewall, 323
Epilogue : The Great Firewall looms over Hong Kong, 335
