Michel Hockx is Professor of Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, the Director of the SOAS China Institute, and the President of the British Association for Chinese Studies. His forthcoming book, due to be published by Columbia University Press in 2014, is called Internet Literature in China.
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