The theme of this blog comes from the title of my new book. Since information about the book is available on the web site of the Columbia University Press, I'll start off with something more fun. I recently learned about the Page 99 Test from Marshal Zeringue's blogs Campaign for the American Reader . Zeringue’s Page 99 Test blog has the following inscription from Ford Madox Ford: "Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." I’m not too sure about how Page 99 reveals the overall quality of my book. In any case, it is up to readers and critics to judge. But the two main paragraphs on that page, cited below, do reflect one main goal in my book. That goal is to examine online activism in contemporary China both diachronically and synchronically. Diachronically, the book attempts to reveal its continuities and discontinuities with earlier social movements in China . The student movement in 1989 is the majo...