Em Xangai

China's Internet spreads a complex web

The rooms in China are like cells with metal bars for doors and windows, and are hardly open to visitors. Those living in them are mostly teenagers who live under military-like discipline. But these inmates are neither mental patients nor prisoners; almost all have landed there on their own or have been sent by their parents.

They are there for one reason: treatment for Internet addiction. The clinics they are in are called Internet Addiction Treatment  Centers; there are currently eight such clinics.