1st Edition

China’s Globalizing Internet History, Power, and Governance

Edited By Yu Hong, Eric Harwit Copyright 2023
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

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. It extends traditional inquiry about digital China and globalization and encourages closer attention to contestation, shifting international order, transformation of states, and new... Read more

1. Introduction – China’s globalizing internet: history, power, and governance 
Yu Hong and Eric Harwit 
2. How to think about cyber sovereignty: the case of China 
Yu Hong and G. Thomas Goodnight 
3. From "bringing-in" to "going-out": transnationalizing China’s Internet capital through state policies 
Min Tang 
4. Exploring the roles of government involvement and institutional environments in the internationalization of Chinese Internet companies 
Qi Yin and Xiaoxia Li 
5. Alibaba’s discourse for the digital Silk Road: the electronic World Trade Platform and ‘inclusive globalization’ 
Maximiliano Facundo Vila Seoane 
6. China’s data localization 
Jinhe Liu 
7. A history of Chinese global Internet governance and its relations with ITU and ICANN 
Gianluigi Negro 

Biography

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).