Info-Rhizome: Report on Independent Media in the Chinese-speaking World

Borrowing the metaphor of the rhizome from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, this book reimagines “grassroots media” not as scattered voices, but as interconnected networks capable of generating transformative social force.

Focusing on independent media movements across Hong Kong, Mainland China, Taiwan and Malaysia, the book situates media practices within their local political histories. Rather than defining “independent media” in advance, it explores how such initiatives emerge from specific social struggles, technological conditions, and political constraints.

Written by experienced practitioners and researchers, the four reports trace the interaction between technology, politics, and civil society. Together, they offer both documentation and dialogue—mapping a cross-border Chinese-language media ecology shaped by resistance, adaptation, and solidarity.

Editors: Lam Oi-wan, Ip Iam-Chong