Tangent\_Leap: Online V2\_Event
Emergent Media Culture in the People's Republic of China

featuring
Isaac Mao, activist blogger and software architect, Shanghai
Zhang Ga, media artist and curator, Beijing/New York
Karsten Giese, political scientist and sinologist, Hamburg
Guobin Jang, social scientist, New York online

Thursday March 30
19.00 - 22.00 (CET - Central/Western Europe)
13.00 - 16.00 (EST - New York)
10.00 - 13.00 (PST - San Diego)

V2\_Institute for the Unstable Media
Eendrachtstraat 10/12, Rotterdam
in collaboration with IIAS (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden)

This event will be streamed live (REAL MEDIA) with a moderated IRC channel open at via www.v2.nl/live.

Over the last few years, The Great Leap, has become a popular metaphor to describe the fast-paced modernization process in China. However, in spite of the turbulent economic growth some domains of Chinese society have changed very little during the past two decades. Many Chinese have seen their private freedoms increase significantly. But, critics would argue that the official policies of