The Internet in China
Subtitle: From Infrastructure to a Nascent Civil Society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 19, 2017
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9783319604046
Description: This book aims to identify the most important political, socio-economic, and technical determinants of Internet development in China, through a historical approach that combines political economy, cultural, and public studies. Firstly, the book looks at the most important strategies that compelled the Chinese government to invest in the construction of the Internet infrastructure. Secondly, it examines the relationships between the development of the Internet in China and the emergence of a nascent civil society. Finally, attention is given to three different Chinese online platforms in three different historical periods. This three-pronged approach presents a coherent set of analyses and case studies which are committed to the investigation of the complex process of change undergone by Internet development in China.
Notes: Source title: The Internet in China: From Infrastructure to a Nascent Civil Society