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Yue Hou is an assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015-16, she was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Contemporary China. She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT and her BA in Economics and Mathematics from Grinnell College.
Despite the risks, Chinese social media users are beating online censorship.
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