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Cross-Strait Cyberspace: Between Public Sphere and Nationalist Battleground

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Cross-Strait integration, which includes high numbers of people from both sides travelling to the other side and the increased exchanges in goods and services between mainland China and Taiwan/ has been hotly debated and widely researched. But the role played by the internet and the cross-Strait cyberspace (which is the term I will employ here) has been largely disregarded. This is especially astonishing as the role played by the internet in mainland China in economic, social, cultural and political developments has produced a vast amount of research. In addition, quite a number of researchers in Taiwan have carefully studied the influence of Taiwan’s social media on recent civilsociety developments and on political protests on the island.

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  1. Faculty of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

    Jens Damm

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  1. School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK

    Paul Irwin Crookes (Lecturer in the International Relations of China) (Lecturer in the International Relations of China)

  2. Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK

    Jan Knoerich (Lecturer in the Economy of China) (Lecturer in the Economy of China)

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Damm, J. (2015). Cross-Strait Cyberspace: Between Public Sphere and Nationalist Battleground. In: Crookes, P.I., Knoerich, J. (eds) Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations in an Era of Technological Change. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137391421_7

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