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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.
Sommario
1. Introduction - China's globalizing internet: history, power, and governance 2. How to think about cyber sovereignty: the case of China 3. From "bringing-in" to "going-out": transnationalizing China's Internet capital through state policies 4. Exploring the roles of government involvement and institutional environments in the internationalization of Chinese Internet companies 5. Alibaba's discourse for the digital Silk Road: the electronic World Trade Platform and 'inclusive globalization' 6. China's data localization 7. A history of Chinese global Internet governance and its relations with ITU and ICANN
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Yu Hong is Professor at the College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. She has a PhD in Communication from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She has published widely on the political economy of Chinese communications, including the book
Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy (2017).
Eric Harwit is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA, and an adjunct senior fellow at the East-West Center. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has published widely on China's telecommunications development, including the book
China's Telecommunications Revolution (2008).
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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.
