Prof. Kate Hartford

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  www.china-wired.com/presentations/MII-2001n/index.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/23/2001    Last Visited: 12/19/2007  

  Kathleen Hartford Freeman Professor of Political Science Hopkins Nanjing Center

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  About the Author - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/7/2006    Last Visited: 12/19/2007  

  Kate Hartford is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University, and a research affiliate of the Program on Information Resources Policy, also at Harvard.During the academic years 2001-2003, she was Freeman Professor of American Politics at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.* She has published, and will continue to publish, extensively on matters related to the political economy of socialist reform and market transition in China, with comparative perspectives drawn from both Central and Eastern Europe and East Asia.

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  About the Author - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/18/2006    Last Visited: 10/28/2007  

  Kate Hartford is Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, and Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University.She has published, and will continue to publish, extensively on matters related to the political economy of socialist reform and market transition in China, with comparative perspectives drawn from both Central and Eastern Europe and East Asia.

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  Bookmarks for Kate Hartford - [Cached Version]
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  Brill's Content: Next - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/30/2001    Last Visited: 1/30/2001  

  Kathleen Hartford, a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, says that China is trying to create a safe sandbox of content on the Web that will attract its citizens and keep them from logging on to non-Chinese sites.If you provide most of the content from within China and make sure you only provide safe content, that's probably going to be enough to keep most users from venturing into places that the government doesn't want them to go, she notes.
  
  Chinese authorities try to filter out websites and information they consider hostile -- those that, for instance, contain pornography, advocate an independent Taiwan or Tibet, or question the Communist Party.They use a URL screening system, which is basically a list of forbidden addresses determined by the Ministry of State Security.The system checks the Web addresses surfers request against the master list and stops the connection if necessary.But a senior Chinese executive with one of the largest U.S. computer companies in Shanghai says the filtering has little impact on users' access to information.They have cyber cops who monitor Internet activity and do surveys and checks on the Internet cafés, he says.But I don't think it means a lot....They want free information ; they know that free information is good for the Chinese economy..
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  Hartford of the University of Massachusetts notes that the regulations defining confidential state information are vague (for example, financial data that could hurt a company's stock can be considered a state secret).Almost anything can be considered a state secret when it comes to these rules, she says, adding that because enforcement is unclear, ICPs and Internet service providers will have to censor themselves.
  
  According to the regulations, everyone in China who has a commercial Internet account must register with the government and agree not to violate the interests of the state.But outside the computer cafés in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities across China, you can buy anonymous prepaid access cards and get up to 60 hours of online time for $ 12.It's illegal, but no one seems to care, especially not state-owned China Telecom, which is trying to sign up as many surfers as possible to defray its infrastructure investments.
  
  The minority of users intent on accessing information from sites the government considers unfriendly do it easily through proxies -- virtual server locations in different parts of the Internet from which a request to view a site bounces, fooling the Chinese cybercensor.However, notes Hachigian of the Council on Foreign Relations, though most casual.
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  Still, warns Hartford, appearing to be in control is a very powerful means of being in control....It makes everyone who crosses the invisible line vulnerable..
  
  Chat rooms and e-mail are some of the most popular online functions in China -- possibly half of the users I spotted in the Haidian Lu Internet cafés were chatting online.

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  Business and Government in East Asia - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/8/1996    Last Visited: 10/28/2007  

  Text © 1996 by Kathleen Hartford
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  Kate HartfordPolitical Science Department

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  Business and Government in East Asia (General) - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/2/1995    Last Visited: 10/28/2007  

  Text © 1996 by Kathleen Hartford

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  CFR - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/9/2001    Last Visited: 6/12/2002  

  Kathleen HartfordProfessor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts/Boston

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  China Herald - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/2/2005    Last Visited: 9/7/2006  

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  Kate Hartford of UMASS in Boston documents in her most recent articles the efforts of the mayors of two provincial capitals, Nanjing of Jiangsu province and Hangzhou of Zhejiang province, to communicate with their citizens. (Here in a PDF-file).

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  Conference Announcement: THIRD ANNUAL CHINESE INTERNET... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/11/2002    Last Visited: 6/3/2005  

  Prof. Kathleen Hartford, Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Boston "Not Just the Net: What Informationizing China Really Means"

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