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Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall
Margaret Roberts ISBN 1400890055
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Margaret Roberts ISBN 1400890055
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This book by Margaret Roberts came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Jeffrey Wasserstrom. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“My favorite book about one of my favorite books about Chinese censorship, Margaret Roberts, where she talks about there are three different ways that the government can control the stories.”— Jeffrey Wasserstrom
The guest here is Jeffrey Wasserstrom: A historian of modern China who has written extensively on Chinese protest movements, Tiananmen, and Hong Kong. His forthcoming book covers the Milk Tea Alliance and struggles for change across East and Southeast Asia. Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom unpacks Xi Jinping vs. Mao, censorship, Tiananmen, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the US-China trade war.
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