Though the emerging superpower contender was relatively late to embrace the Internet phenomenon, a tremendous amount of web development has occurred in recent years. Despite the potential benefit of the Internet to its billion-plus denizens, the Chinese Communist Party has created one of the world’s foremost web sentry systems – the Golden Shield Project.

‘A Million Voices Against Corruption’ was a culmination of political and cultural opportunities that were shaped into a force of social change, made possible by the leadership of prominent political figures, and their organization of all the resources that became available to them once the plea was made for caring citizens to take to the streets.