1st Edition
The Making of China’s Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security Policy Players, Governance, and Global Ambition
Introduction: A State-Led Approach toward China’s Digital Policy
Suisheng Zhao
Part I: The Decision-Makers and Stakeholders
1. Centralized Regime Gaining Information Capacity: Can China Approach Innovation Frontiers?
Kaidong Feng and Ziying Jiang
2. China’s Artificial Intelligence Ethics: Policy Development in an Emergent Community of Practice
Guangyu Qiao-Franco and Rongsheng Zhu
Part II: Digital Authoritarianism
3. The Chinese Conception of Cybersecurity: A Conceptual, Institutional and Regulatory Genealogy
Rogier Creemers
4. Modernization Planner, Authoritarian Paternalist, and Rising Power: Evolving Government Positions in China’s Internet Securitization
Weishan Miao and Rongbin Han
5. Urban Management in Authoritarian China: How the Smart City Is Used to Enhance Comprehensive Law Enforcement
Wen-Hsuan Tsai, Ruihua Lin, Hsin Hsien Wang
6. Digital Governance in China: Dispute Settlement and Stability Maintenance in the Digital Age
Jieren Hu and Xingmei Zhang
7. 'Hold on to the Green Horse’: Popular Imaginations of the Health Code and the Cultivation of Algocratic Attunement in China in the COVID Era
Sheng Zou
Part III: Shaping Global Digital Governance
8. Chinese Influence through Technical Standardization Power
Tim Rühlig
9. Chinese Data Governance and Trade Policy: From Cyber Sovereignty to the Quest for Digital Hegemony?
Oscar Borgogno and Michele Savini Zangrandi
10. China’s Digital Yuan: Motivations of the Chinese Government and Potential Global Effects
Nir Kshetri
11. Shaping AI’s Future? China in Global AI Governance
Jing Cheng and Jinghan Zeng
Biography
Suisheng Zhao is Professor and Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation at Josef
Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA. He is the founder
and editor of the Journal of Contemporary China and the author and editor of over two
dozen books and hundreds of academic articles.
