Trickle-down Censorship
An outsider's account of working inside China's censorship regime
$27.99
ISBN
9781925272550
By | JFK Miller |
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Format | Paperback / softback |
Page Extent | 272 |
Book Size | 198 x 130 x 248 mm (H x W x D) |
Imprint | Hybrid Publishing |
Release Date | 3 Dec 2018 |
Subject Classification | East Asia, Far East / China |
A Westerner’s inside look into the workings of Chinese society. For six years, from 2005 to 2011, Australian JFK Miller worked in Shanghai for English-language publications
censored by state publishers under the aegis of the Chinese Communist Party. In this wry memoir, he offers a view of that regime, as he saw it, as an outsider from the bottom up.
‘Trickle-Down Censorship’ explores how censorship affected him, a Westerner who took free speech for granted. It is about how he learned censorship in a system where the rules are kept secret; it is about how he became his own ‘Thought Police’ through self-censorship; it is about the peculiar relationship he developed with his censors, and the moral choices he made .