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Explores the increasingly intimate relationship between China and wireless technology, taking the wave as a central concept In the twenty-first century city, wireless waves constitute an imperceptible, immersive, all-encompassing environment. Nowhere is this more so than in China, where a hyperdense network of mobile media has restructured daily life. Anna Greenspan re-imagines the relationship between China and wirelessness by synthesizing contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought. It focuses specifically on the work of three critical figures: Tan Sitong 譚嗣同 (1865-1898), Xiong Shili 熊十力 (1885-1968) and Mou Zongsan 牟宗三 (1909-1995). Anna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai.
About the author
Anna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai. She is the author of
Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade (Oxford University Press, 2014),
India and the IT Revolution: Networks of Globalization (Palgrave, 2005). She also writes for a non-academic audience including these three books:
Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 (Urbanomic, 2015),
Future Mutations: Technology and the Evolution of the Species (Time Spiral Press, 2014) and
Urbanatomy: Shanghai 2008 (China Intercontinental Press, 2008).
Summary
Anna Greenspan re-imagines the relationship between China and wirelessness by synthesizing contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought.
