Kaiser Kuo hosts alone this week as we turn our attention to the World Internet Conference (English site) last week, when a last minute attempt by Chinese organizers to foist the so-called Wuzhen Declaration on participants provoked an international backlash over concerns it was attempting to make the international community complicit in even sharper restrictions on Internet usage China seems poised to impose under the country's new Internet Tsar, Lu Wei.
Missed the news? Joining us to bring everyone up-to-date with a combination of insider-gossip and academic analysis is Rogier Creemers of Oxford University, founder of the China Copyright and Media Blog, and one of the unsung heroes of China-watching given his penchant for producing rapid and accurate translations of important Chinese policy documents and speeches that tend to be ignored by the rest of the press.
Recommendations
- Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, Penguin Classics, 2006 (orig. Viking Press, 1973).
- Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy, Roger Collins, Basic Books, April 9, 2013.
- The Politics of Lawmaking in Post-Mao China: Institutions, Processes and Democratic Prospects, Murray Scott Tanner, Clarendon Press, April 15, 1999.
- “When Calls for Revenge Overwhelm China’s Courts," Didi Kirsten Tatlow, The New York Times, November 19, 2014.