Yu Hong is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at USC Annenberg. She is the author of Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development.

"A bold and wide-ranging overview of seven decades of media, telecommunications, and information sector developments in China. Professor Hong manages both to stay engaged with the minutiae of this complex story, but also to identify the critical trends and themes that animated its unfolding. This is no mean achievement, and marks out Professor Hong as a notable scholar of information technology studies as well as a perspicacious observer of China."--Journal of Information Policy"This is one of the most enlightening pieces of writing on the evolution of the information and communications technology sector in China."--Chinese Journal of Communication"Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy provides a much needed critical assessment of China's engagement with ICTs, telecommunications and media. . . . The book represents the most well-articulated discussion of the imminent rise of techno-nationalism and economic development in China."--Asian Communication Research

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsIntroduction: China, Crisis, and Communications1. Driving Capitalism to Western China: IT and the Unwieldy Export-Processing Regime2. Repurposing Telecoms for Capital: Networking and Inequality3. Forging Broadband for the Commanding-Heights Economy: State-Business Relations in Networking4. Making a Home-Base Strategy: 3G and 4G Mobile Communication and Industrial Policy5. Recasting the Media System: Network Convergence and Digital TV6. Building Network Nation: Domestic Thrusts and Global ImpactsConclusion: Communications and China's Political EconomyAppendixNotesIndex

Yu Hong is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at USC Annenberg. She is the author of Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development.

"A bold and wide-ranging overview of seven decades of media, telecommunications, and information sector developments in China. Professor Hong manages both to stay engaged with the minutiae of this complex story, but also to identify the critical trends and themes that animated its unfolding. This is no mean achievement, and marks out Professor Hong as a notable scholar of information technology studies as well as a perspicacious observer of China."--Journal of Information Policy"This is one of the most enlightening pieces of writing on the evolution of the information and communications technology sector in China."--Chinese Journal of Communication"Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy provides a much needed critical assessment of China's engagement with ICTs, telecommunications and media. . . . The book represents the most well-articulated discussion of the imminent rise of techno-nationalism and economic development in China."--Asian Communication Research

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsIntroduction: China, Crisis, and Communications1. Driving Capitalism to Western China: IT and the Unwieldy Export-Processing Regime2. Repurposing Telecoms for Capital: Networking and Inequality3. Forging Broadband for the Commanding-Heights Economy: State-Business Relations in Networking4. Making a Home-Base Strategy: 3G and 4G Mobile Communication and Industrial Policy5. Recasting the Media System: Network Convergence and Digital TV6. Building Network Nation: Domestic Thrusts and Global ImpactsConclusion: Communications and China's Political EconomyAppendixNotesIndex

Yu Hong is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at USC Annenberg. She is the author of Labor, Class Formation, and China's Informationized Policy of Economic Development.

"A bold and wide-ranging overview of seven decades of media, telecommunications, and information sector developments in China. Professor Hong manages both to stay engaged with the minutiae of this complex story, but also to identify the critical trends and themes that animated its unfolding. This is no mean achievement, and marks out Professor Hong as a notable scholar of information technology studies as well as a perspicacious observer of China."--Journal of Information Policy"This is one of the most enlightening pieces of writing on the evolution of the information and communications technology sector in China."--Chinese Journal of Communication"Networking China: The Digital Transformation of the Chinese Economy provides a much needed critical assessment of China's engagement with ICTs, telecommunications and media. . . . The book represents the most well-articulated discussion of the imminent rise of techno-nationalism and economic development in China."--Asian Communication Research

• CoverTitleCopyrightContentsIntroduction: China, Crisis, and Communications1. Driving Capitalism to Western China: IT and the Unwieldy Export-Processing Regime2. Repurposing Telecoms for Capital: Networking and Inequality3. Forging Broadband for the Commanding-Heights Economy: State-Business Relations in Networking4. Making a Home-Base Strategy: 3G and 4G Mobile Communication and Industrial Policy5. Recasting the Media System: Network Convergence and Digital TV6. Building Network Nation: Domestic Thrusts and Global ImpactsConclusion: Communications and China's Political EconomyAppendixNotesIndex