The Rise of the Chinese Blogosphere

In 1995 China’s Internet users made up less than 1% of the world’s Internet population; in 2007 they comprised about 16% of the global Internet total (Stanley, 2008). Against this backdrop of an explosive growth of the Internet in China (Fanning, 2008; MacLeod, 2008) and amidst the global ballyhoo of blogs, the blogosphere has captured the imagination of millions of Chinese netizens with blogging as one of the top ten Internet applications (China Internet Network Information Center, 2008). The first blog-like type of online content appeared in the United States in 1994 (Barlow, 2007). The ABSTRACT

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