"This superb book forges a new path through scholarship on digital media governance. As well as being a nuanced analysis of Chinese internet policy, Zoning China invites the reader to think differently about the infrastructural, cultural, and political histories of video as a medium. A highly original and important book."
Ramon Lobato, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University; author of Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution
"By far the most compelling, authoritative account of China's digital entertainment industry, Zoning China provides a superb analysis of the emergence and evolution of online streaming businesses as part of China's political and media culture. It will be widely read in the years to come!"
Ruoyun Bai, Associate Professor, University of Toronto; author of Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics
"Why and how did China's online video industry carve out a special cultural zone on China's highly managed political landscape? Zoning China skillfully joins political economic analysis with critical cultural studies to solve this puzzle. An important contribution to media studies, sociology of culture, and Chinese politics."
Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
"Zoning China provides a comprehensive, rigorous, and enthralling analysis of the development of China's online video industry before 2014."
Pacific Affairs
"An insightful and critical analysis ofthe online video industry and the evolving media regulatory apparatuses in China."
LSE Review of Books
“A critical perspective on understanding China's media system and the subtle interaction of complex political, economic, and technological factors shaping this system.”
International Journal of Communication
