Maria Repnikova is assistant professor in Global Communication at Georgia State University, a Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, and the author of the acclaimed book Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism. She was previously a post-doctoral fellow at the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania and a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. She speaks fluent Mand