China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution : Social Changes and State Responses (Paperback)

Introduction - YONGNIAN ZHENG AND XIAOLING ZHANG. 1. Historical Imagination in the Study of Chinese Digital Civil Society - GUOBIN YANG. 2. Dancing Thumbs: Mobile Telephony in Contemporary China - ZHENZHI GUO AND MEI WU. 3. Regulating E Gao: Futile efforts of recentralization? - BINGCHUN MENG. 4. In the Name of Good Governance: E-Government, Internet Pornography, and Political Censorship in China - GUOGUANG WU. 5. Chinese Intellectuals and Internet in the Formation of a New Collective Memory - JUNHUA ZHANG. 6. From "Foreign Propaganda" to "International Communication": China’s Promotion of Soft Power in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies - XIAOLING ZHANG. 7. Web Engineering in the Chinese Context: "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend" - KIERON O’HARA. 8. The Political Cost of Information Control in China: The Nation-State and Governance - YONGNIAN ZHENG.