The e-liberation of China's youth

Xiangyin is a provincial backwater. But it has 60 or 70 Internet cafйs, some legal, some not. The central government has declared that the information economy is crucial for China's prosperity, so it has encouraged the spread of broadband to the more remote towns and villages. Today, hundreds of millions of people have easy access to the Net, even in places where average household incomes are less than $1,000 a year and nobody can afford a computer.
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