The essays in this volume explore the new power struggles created in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong through information technology. The contributors analyze the interaction between the development of information technologies and social logic on the one hand and processes of unification and fragmentation on the other. They seek to highlight the strategies of public and private actors aimed at monopolizing the benefits created by the information society - whether for monetary gain or bureaucratic consolidation - as well as the new loci of power now emerging. The book is organized around two main themes: One exploring societal change and power relations, the second examining the restructuring of Greater China's space. In so doing, the book seeks to shed light on both the state formation process as well as international relations theory.

Autorentext

FRANÇOISE MENGIN is a Researcher at the Center for International Studies and Research (CERI), Paris, France and Co-editor of Politics in China.

Inhalt

Introduction: China in the Age of Globalisation; F.Mengin PART I: NEW MEANS, A NEW POLITY? Speaker's Corner of Virtual Panopticon: Discursive Contruction of Chinese Identities Online; K.Giese Information Technologies and the Emerging Chinese Religious Landscape; D.Palmer The Changing Role of the State in Greater China in the Age of Information; F.Mengin PART II: COMMUNICATION AND CONTROL: SOVEREIGNTY IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET Controlling the Internet Architecture within Greater China; C.R.Hughes The Internet and the Changing Beijing Taipei Relations: Towards Unification or Fragmentation?; C.Hung Government Online and Cross Straits Relations; P.Batto PART III: GLOBAL NETWORKING AND ECONONOMIC INTERACTIONS New Information Technologies and Economic Interactions Among China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; B.Naughton Cyber-Capitalism and the Remaking of Greater China; N.Sum Urban Assemblages: An Ecological Sense of the Knowledge Economy; A.Ong Global Networking and the New Division of Labor Across the Taiwan Straits; T.K.Leng