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This book considers the Chinese internet as an ensemble of ideas,
ownership, policies, laws, and interests that intersect with
pre-existing global elements and, increasingly, with deepening
globalizing imperatives. It extends traditional inquiry about
digital China and globalization and encourages closer attention to
contestation, shifting international order, transformation of
states, and new requirements of global digital capitalism. Across
the three foci of history, power, and governance, this book
considers the ways the Chinese internet is entangled with
transnational capitals, ideas, and institutions, while at the same
time manifests a strong globalizing drive. It begins with a
historical political economy approach that emphasizes the
dialectics between structural imperatives and historical
contingency. As for governance, the Chinese state has set out to
re-regulate the internet as the network becomes ubiquitous during
the nation's web-oriented digital transformation. Such a
state-centric governance model, however, is likely to affect
China's global expansion, apart from the fact that the state is
taking an active interest in global internet governance. This book
will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of
Communication Studies, Politics, Sociology, Economics, Cultural
Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. The chapters in this
book were originally published as a special issue of the Chinese
Journal of Communication.
The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance
that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income. The book
reviews public assistance programmes, and evaluates other plans
that have been proposed.
The author presents an argument for a system of social insurance
that replaces welfare with a Guaranteed Adequate Income. The book
reviews public assistance programmes, and evaluates other plans
that have been proposed.
China's telecommunications industry has seen revolutionary
transformation and growth over the past three decades. Chinese
Internet users number nearly 150 million, and the PRC expects to
quickly pass the US in total numbers of connected citizens. The
number of mobile and fixed-line telephone users soared from a mere
2 million in 1980 to a total of nearly 800 million in 2007. China
has been the most successful developing nation in history for
spreading telecommunications access at an unparalleled rapid pace.
This book tells how China conducted its remarkable
"telecommunications revolution." It examines both corporate and
government policy to get citizens connected to both voice and data
networks, looks at the potential challenges to the one-party
government when citizens get this access, and considers the new
opportunities for networking now offered to the people of one of
the world's fastest growing economies.
The book is based on the author's fieldwork conducted in several
Chinese cities, as well as extensive archival research. It focuses
on key issues such as building and running the country's Internet,
mobile phone company rivalry, foreign investment in the sector, and
telecommunications in China's vibrant city of Shanghai. It also
considers the country's internal "digital divide," and questions
how equitable the telecommunications revolution has been. Finally,
it examines the ways the PRC's entry to the World Trade
Organization will shape the future course of telecommunications
growth.
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