A new approach to the geopolitics of Chinese internets
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
2-2024
ISBN
9781032690049
DOI
10.4324/9781032690162-1
Abstract
This introductory essay summarizes how our understanding of Chinese internets – in the plural – has shifted in the past two decades. The incumbent approach sees ‘Chinese tech’ as a unitary and statist monolith, an incomplete view whose utility has declined. By contrast, the articles in this special issue collectively substantiate a novel geopolitical approach that analyzes ‘Chinese internets’ as internally diverse and externally border-crossing; as both public (governmental and non-governmental) and private (e.g., corporate); as discursive and policy entanglements beyond the dichotomy of multistakeholderism and multilateralism; and as global, regional, and local formations that are connected to, but not entirely constrained by, their national counterparts. Pluralist and multilayered, this new approach to analyzing Chinese techno-geopolitics shall provide a better fit for contemporary internet research involving state and nonstate actors in China, including Chinese companies operating both overseas and globally.
Num Pages
144
Publisher
Routledge
Editor
Jack Linchuan Qiu, Peter K. Yu, & Elisa Oreglia
Book Title
The Geopolitics of Chinese Internets
Recommended Citation
Jack L. Qiu, Peter K. Yu & Elisa Oreglia,
A new approach to the geopolitics of Chinese internets,
in
The Geopolitics of Chinese Internets
(Jack Linchuan Qiu, Peter K. Yu, & Elisa Oreglia eds., 2024).
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