How Edward Snowden became China’s new best friend

By Kjetil B. Alstadheim, Student at Nottingham University Ningbo Summer School. It was from Chinese territory Edward Snowden’s revelations about American massive spying on the internet came. Snowden fled to Hong Kong from Hawaii before leaking documents about the operations of The National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden did not stay in Hong Kong for long. …

How Edward Snowden became China’s new best friend

By Kjetil B. Alstadheim, Student at Nottingham University Ningbo Summer School. It was from Chinese territory Edward Snowden’s revelations about American massive spying on the internet came. Snowden fled to Hong Kong from Hawaii before leaking documents about the operations of The National Security Agency (NSA).  Snowden did not stay in Hong Kong for long. …

Reading the writing on the wall – Recent developments in the study of Chinese Social Media

By Christian Shepherd, Studying an MA in Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Chinese social media is both a blessing and a curse for Contemporary Chinese Studies’ research. The potential is obvious: over half of Chinese internet users are micro-bloggers and internet penetration has reached the 40th percentile, but the pitfalls …