Document Number Nine
John Lanchester: Chinese Cyber-Sovereignty, 10 October 2019
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
by James Griffiths.
Zed, 386 pp., £20, March 2019,978 1 78699 535 3 Show More
by James Griffiths.
Zed, 386 pp., £20, March 2019,
We Have Been Harmonised: Life in China’s Surveillance State
by Kai Strittmatter.
Old Street, 328 pp., £9.99, May 2019,978 1 913083 00 7 Show More
by Kai Strittmatter.
Old Street, 328 pp., £9.99, May 2019,
“... in which countries have control over their own versions of the internet. Kai Strittmatter was for many years the Beijing correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, and his excellent We Have Been Harmonised is an eye-opening account of this issue. (‘Harmonised’ is a euphemism for ‘censored’.) The days when the party eyed ... ”
