China: the Sonic Avant-Garde, 1-2 (2005-2006) [Chinese]

“This not-to-be-missed webzine about Chinese sound art is the endeavor by some of the key figures of the scene (sic, XU Cheng, etc.).

The first issue features a long interview of Dajuin Yao, the most important driving force/entrepreneur of Chinese new music, a must-read Autechre interview translated from Japanese (originally published on the Japanese magazine FADE) by Taiwan sound artist Wolfenstein, tips on field-recording by WANG Changcun and Dajuin Yao, and LI Jianhong, Ronez’s account of their latest albums.

The design job was done by XU Cheng, who’s also a designer and is responsible for artworks of many Chinese experimental releases.” (via Lawrence R.Y. LI’s blog Global Noise Offline)

Editorial staff: CHEN Wei, XU Cheng, ZHANG Liming

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Issue 1 (updated on 2017-11-29)
Issue 2 (updated on 2017-11-29)

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, Vol 4: Shanghai Modern: The Future in Microcosm? (2012)

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is a journal for border-crossing cultural research, globally open to articles from all areas in this large field, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents for exploring cultural perspectives, issues and phenomena. It is peer-reviewed and easily accessible for downloading as open access.

This issue of the journal gathers articles that represent a range of different reflections on Shanghai past and present. The global city of Shanghai is taken as a starting point to explore issues of urban space, modernity, and the Chinese transition in the twentieth and twenty-first century. And it also allows
for contributions that challenge the traditional forms of academic representation to explore the modern city in a more essayistic manner.

With contributions by Justin O’Connor, Owen Hatherley, Anna Greenspan, Hongwei Bao, Lü Pan, Ma Ran, Sheng Zhong, Xin Gu, Haili Ma, Ian Ho-yin Fong

Edited by Justin O’Connor and Xin Gu
Published by Linköping University, Norrköping
ISSN 2000-1525
242 pages

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Deibert, Palfrey, Rohozinski, Zittrain (eds.): Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace (2011)

A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being waged in Asia. At the epicenter of this contest is China–home to the world’s largest Internet population and what is perhaps the world’s most advanced Internet censorship and surveillance regime in cyberspace. Resistance to China’s Internet controls comes from both grassroots activists and corporate giants such as Google. Meanwhile, similar struggles play out across the rest of the region, from India and Singapore to Thailand and Burma, although each national dynamic is unique. Access Contested, the third volume from the OpenNet Initiative (a collaborative partnership of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and the SecDev Group in Ottawa), examines the interplay of national security, social and ethnic identity, and resistance in Asian cyberspace, offering in-depth accounts of national struggles against Internet controls as well as updated country reports by ONI researchers.

The contributors examine such topics as Internet censorship in Thailand, the Malaysian blogosphere, surveillance and censorship around gender and sexuality in Malaysia, Internet governance in China, corporate social responsibility and freedom of expression in South Korea and India, cyber attacks on independent Burmese media, and distributed-denial-of-service attacks and other digital control measures across Asia.

Edited by Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain
Publisher MIT Press, 2011
Information Revolution and Global Politics series
ISBN 0262516802, 9780262516808
414 pages

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