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Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet, and the Self. By Fengshu Liu. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. 238 pp. $125.00 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2012

Jeremiah Jenne*
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
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Book Reviews—China
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012

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References

1 “Internet population grows amid concerns,” The China Daily (January 11, 2012) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-01/11/content_14424818.htm (accessed January 12, 2012). As of December 2011, the reported number of Internet users in China stood at 513 million (Los Angeles Times, January 16, 2012, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2012/01/chinese-web-users-grow-to-513-million.html).

2 See the debate between Guobin Yang and James Liebold in a recent issue of the Journal. Leibold, James, “Blogging Alone: China, the Internet, and the Democratic Illusion?The Journal of Asian Studies 70, no. 4 (November 2011): 1023–41CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Yang, Guobin, “Technology and Its Contents: Issues in the Study of the Chinese Internet,” The Journal of Asian Studies 70, no. 4 (November 2011): 1043–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar.