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China's information and communications technology revolution : social changes and state responses / edited by Xiaoling Zhang and Yongnian Zheng. - London : Routledge, 2009. - vii, 160 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - China policy series ; .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Yongnian Zheng and Xiaoling Zhang -- Historical imagination in the study of Chinese digital civil society / Guobin Yang -- Dancing thumbs : mobile telephony in contemporary China / Zhenzhi Guo and Mei Wu -- Regulating e gao : futile efforts of recentralization? / Bingchun Meng -- In the name of good governance : e-government, Internet pornography, and political censorship in China / Guoguang Wu -- Chinese intellectuals and Internet in the formation of a new collective memory / Junhua Zhang -- From "foreign propaganda" to "international communication" : China's promotion of soft power in the age of information and communication technologies / Xiaoling Zhang -- Web engineering in the Chinese context : "let a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend" / Kieron O'Hara -- The political cost of information control in China : the nation-state and governance / Yongnian Zheng.

9780415462303 (cloth : alk. paper) 0415462304 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780203881132 (ebook) 0203881133 (ebook)


Information technology--China.
Communication--Technological innovations--China.
Internet--China.
Social change--China.
Freedom of information--China.
Freedom of expression--China.

HC430.I55 / C455 2009

303.48330951 / C455

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