Networking China

The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy

Yu Hong (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2017 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08239-9 (ISBN)

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In recent years, China 's leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next pillar industry. In Networking China , Yu Hong offers an overdue examination of that burgeoning sector's political economy. Hong focuses on how the state, in conjunction with market forces and class interests, is constructing and realigning its digitalized sector. State planners intend to build a more competitive ICT sector by modernizing the network infrastructure, corporatizing media-and-entertainment institutions, and by using ICT as a crosscutting catalyst for innovation, industrial modernization, and export upgrades. The goal: to end China's industrial and technological dependence upon foreign corporations while transforming itself into a global ICT leader. The project, though bright with possibilities, unleashes implications rife with contradiction and surprise. Hong analyzes the central role of information, communications, and culture in Chinese-style capitalism. She also argues that the state and elites have failed to challenge entrenched interests or redistribute power and resources, as promised. Instead, they prioritize information, communications, and culture as technological fixes to make pragmatic tradeoffs between economic growth and social justice.

Yu Hong is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at USC Annenberg. She is the author of Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Geopolitics of Information
Zusatzinfo	3 charts, 12 tables
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	367 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-252-08239-7 / 0252082397
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08239-9 / 9780252082399
Zustand	Neuware