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The great firewall of China : (Record no. 217867)

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LC control number 2019401294
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781350257917 (paperback)
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System control number 21271556
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System control number (OCoLC)1040998629
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 302.2310951 GRI
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Griffiths, James T.
Fuller form of name (James Tomos),
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The great firewall of China :
Remainder of title how to build and control an alternative version of the internet /
Statement of responsibility, etc. James Griffiths.
246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title How to build and control an alternative version of the internet
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture London :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Zed Books,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2019.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2019
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xv, 423 pages :
Other physical details 1 map ;
Dimensions 25 cm
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365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount Rs. 2235.00
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-373) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction: Early warnings. Part one. Wall. Protests: solidarity from Hong Kong to Tiananmen -- Over the wall: China's first email and the rise of the online censor -- Nailing the jello: Chinese democracy and the Great Firewall -- Enemy at the gates: how fear of Falun Gong boosted the Firewall -- Searching for an opening: Google, Yahoo and Silicon Valley's moral failing in China -- Part two. Shield. Along came a spider: Lu Wei reins in the Chinese internet -- Peak traffic: Getting the Dalai Lama online -- Filtered: The firewall catches up with Da Cankao -- Jumping the wall: FreeGate, UltraSurf, and Falun Gong's fight against the censors -- Called to account: Silicon Valley's reckoning on Capitol Hill -- Part three. Sword. Uyghurs online: Ilham Tohti and the birth of the Uyghur internet -- Shutdown: how to take 20 million people offline -- Ghosts in the machine: Chinese hackers expand the Firewall's reach -- NoGuGe: The ignominious end of Google China -- The social network: Weibo and the last free-speech platform -- Gorillas in the mist: Exposing China's hackers to the world -- Part four. War. Caught: the death of the Uyghur internet -- Key opinion leader: how Chinese trolls go after dissidents overseas -- Root and stem: the internet is more vulnerable than you think -- The censor at the UN: China's undermining of global internet freedoms -- Sovereignty: when Xi Jinping came for the internet -- Friends in Moscow: the Great Firewall goes west -- Plane crash: China helps Russia bring Telegram to heel -- One app to rule them all: how WeChat opened up new frontiers of surveillance and censorship -- Buttocks: Uganda's internet blackouts follow Beijing's lead -- Epilogue: Silicon Valley won't save you.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Griffiths exposes the world's biggest and most sophisticated system of internet censorship. He describes how China did the impossible and built a controlled, warped version of the internet. Griffiths also explains how the vision of the web as a force for democracy and freedom failed, and the censors, far from retreating, are on the advance.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Internet
General subdivision Political aspects
Geographic subdivision China.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Freedom of speech
Geographic subdivision China.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Censorship
Geographic subdivision China.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Internet
General subdivision Government policy
Geographic subdivision China.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification PB   Not For Loan . . New Arrival - Display Area 11.03.2026 Purchased - Satyam Books   302.2310951 GRI 40735 11.03.2026 11.03.2026 BOOKs Recommended by Dr. Manpreet Singh Dhillon