[ecrea] New Book: Networking China

New book:

Networking China

The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy

YU HONG


A political economy of China’s new digital capitalism

“In great detail and with the careful refl ection of a seasoned scholar, 
Yu Hong

describes the astounding growth of digital technology in China and its 
complex

and powerful ramifi cations at home and abroad.”

—Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World


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.


Here is a link to the book's page:____

http://go.illinois.edu/s17hong 
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