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The Emergence of China's Smart State

Rogier Creemers Straton Papagianneas Adam Knight Rogier Creemers

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English
Rowman & Littlefield
16 October 2023
China's emergence as a technology leader has become a major factor in geopolitics, transforming global political and economic relationships. In its bid to achieve digital great power status, China's government has reformed laws and policies, drastically increased investment, and become more assertive internationally. Chinese companies have expanded at home and abroad, but relationships between government and the private sector have sometimes been fractious.

The Emergence of China's Smart State assesses the extent to which the Chinese government has been able to achieve its ambitious digital goals, and more broadly, how this reflects rapidly changing domestic and international political and economic dynamics surrounding China's rise as a major technology player. This is the first book of its kind, interrogating the complex, dynamic interactions between political, market, and technological factors that structure China's digital development. It will provide information and intellectual frameworks for scholars, policymakers, and professionals to appreciate the complexity of China's digital policy landscape, the process of learning and iteration the Party continues to experience as external events impact the policy process, and the impact China's innovation policies, regulations, and achievements have had, or may have, in the future.

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Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 236mm,  Width: 160mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   522g
ISBN:   9781538184417
ISBN 10:   1538184419
Series:   Digital Technologies and Global Politics
Pages:   260
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction by Rogier Creemers Part I: Digital Concepts and Institutions Chapter 1: The Cyberspace Administration of China: A Portrait by Jamie Horsley and Rogier Creemers Chapter 2: The Stumbling Smart State: Fragmented Policy Experimentation & Dubious Consolidation by Straton Papagianneas & Adam Knight Part II: Strategic Emerging Technologies Chapter 3: China’s Industrial Policy for Semiconductors by John Lee Chapter 4: Fintech in China: Trading off Growth and Risk, Innovation and Control by Martin Chorzempa Part III: International Engagement and Confrontation Chapter 5: China: A Technical Standardisation Power? by Tim Rühlig Chapter 6: China and Global Data Transfers: Implications for Future Rulemaking by Hunter Dorwart Chapter 7: China and Global Internet Governance: ITU, ICANN and the World Internet Conference by Gianluigi Negro Chapter 8: Becoming a Cyber Superpower: China Builds Offensive Capability with Military, Government and Private Sector Forces by Mei Danowski Part IV: Local Dynamics Chapter 9: China – A Rising Tech Power? National Ambitions and Local Realities by Genia Kostka Chapter 10: Opening the City Through Debordering IT: The Making of an Innovation Ecosystem in a Post-Industrial Special Economic Zone in China by Yujing Tan Index About the Editors and Contributors

"Rogier Creemers is a university lecturer in Modern Chinese Studies. With a background in sinology and international relations, his research focuses on Chinese domestic digital technology policy, as well as China's growing importance in global digital affairs. He is the principal investigator of the NWO Vidi Project ""The Smart State: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and the Law in China."" For the Leiden Asia Centre, he directs a project on China and global cybersecurity, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also a co-founder of DigiChina, a joint initiative with Stanford University and New America. Straton Papagianneas is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University, where he studies the automation and digitisation of legal courts in the People’s Republic of China. He is strongly interested in the study of Chinese law & society, governance, automation of justice and administration, and its surrounding ethical and normative questions. He also teaches courses on Chinese law & society, governance, and automation & justice. Outside of his academic work, Papagianneas is an editorial board member at Sinotalks. Straton is also affiliated with the Leiden University’s VVI Institute for Law & Society, and the e-Law centre for Law and Digital Technologies. Adam Knight is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University, where he focuses on the design, implementation and consequences of the Chinese social credit system. He frequently contributes to reports in media such as the BBC, Financial Times and South China Morning Post."

Reviews for The Emergence of China's Smart State

At a time of growing geo-political tensions between China and the West, the importance of understanding China's strategies in the critical area of advanced technologies cannot be overstated. This volume draws on extensive research and expertise to provide a nuanced and authoritative account of China's technology ambitions and capabilities--and the sometimes wide gap between the two. It should be mandatory reading for all policy-makers dealing with China. The Emergence of China's Smart State should be essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand China's technological rise from a Beijing-centric perspective. Policymakers in particular will benefit from the way authors in the book have unpacked the complexity and contradictions present in China's digital development and ambitions. This excellent compilation of essays on a complex topic, how the government guides development of the digital economy and how it has evolved, is a breath of fresh air and adds a much-needed facts-based and non-ideological corpus of understanding to our knowledge of this important topic. The book is free from some of the ideological spin of recent efforts to track and describe particularly the role of government in driving China's rise as a technology power. The authors all appear to have first-hand and fresh knowledge of their subject areas, and avoid relying on second and third hand sources in ways that can sometimes become an echo chamber of analysis of China and technology in the age of highly geopolitically charged US-China technology competition. Well done all around.


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