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East Asian Maginot Line: the Great Firewall of China
Dr. Phil Williams will speak about internet censorship in China at the University of Montana.
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Dr. Phil Williams provides an overview of heavily re-sourced Party-state controls on the internet and media, including some analogies to pre-modern Chinese wall-building in northwestern border regions, along with photographs and illustrations.
Philip is the former Head of School of Language Studies and professor of Chinese language and culture at Massey University, New Zealand. Two of his eight books include A Thousand Miles of Prison Walls and Mandarin Chinese the Easy Way. Philip is fluent in Chinese.
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