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Author: Cara Wallis Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479866083 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 278
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Winner of the 2014 Bonnie Ritter Book Award Winner of the 2013 James W. Carey Media Research Award As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to “see the world” and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service work in Beijing, where they live and work for indefinite periods of time. While simultaneously situating her work within the fields of feminist studies, technology studies, and communication theory, Wallis explores the way in which the cell phone has been integrated into the transforming social structures and practices of contemporary China, and the ways in which mobile technology enables rural young women—a population that has been traditionally marginalized and deemed as “backward” and “other”—to participate in and create culture, allowing them to perform a modern, rural-urban identity. In this theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis, Wallis provides original insight into the co-construction of technology and subjectivity as well as the multiple forces that shape contemporary China.
Author: Cara Wallis Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479866083 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 278
Book Description
Winner of the 2014 Bonnie Ritter Book Award Winner of the 2013 James W. Carey Media Research Award As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to “see the world” and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service work in Beijing, where they live and work for indefinite periods of time. While simultaneously situating her work within the fields of feminist studies, technology studies, and communication theory, Wallis explores the way in which the cell phone has been integrated into the transforming social structures and practices of contemporary China, and the ways in which mobile technology enables rural young women—a population that has been traditionally marginalized and deemed as “backward” and “other”—to participate in and create culture, allowing them to perform a modern, rural-urban identity. In this theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis, Wallis provides original insight into the co-construction of technology and subjectivity as well as the multiple forces that shape contemporary China.
Author: Dennis Zuev Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319765906 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 133
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This book is an empirically rich case-study of what is currently the most popular alternative-fuel vehicle in the history of motorization – the electric two-wheeler (e-bike). The book provides sociological insights into e-bike mobility in China and discusses politics, social practices and larger issues of mobility transition in urban China. Taking an accessible approach to the subject, the book identifies the main sociospatial conflicts regarding the use of e-bikes and discusses why electric two-wheeler mobility is important for the future of urban China and urban transportation globally. This book will be an invaluable read for urban geographers and transportation researchers, but also for academics and general readers interested in Chinese Studies, specifically in the area of urban mobility in China.
Author: Liisa Ecola Publisher: Rand Corporation ISBN: 0833090356 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 119
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Researchers developed two scenarios to envision the future of mobility in China in 2030. Economic growth, the presence of constraints on vehicle ownership and driving, and environmental conditions differentiate the scenarios. By making potential long-term mobility futures more vivid, the team sought to help decisionmakers at different levels of government and in the private sector better anticipate and prepare for change.
Author: AA.VV. Publisher: Ledizioni ISBN: 8867059920 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 122
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The current trade war between the US and China looks like a small piece in a much larger puzzle over world leadership in which China plays the part of the ascending challenger seeking to upset the existing balance of power. Technology and innovation seem to be Beijing’s weapons of choice in its frontal assault on Washington in sectors traditionally led by the US. China is not only acquiring technology. Its ambitions include the regulation of international trade and global governance. Just what a China-led global order would look like is still unclear, but the inherent side-effects of technology need to be meticulously assessed, as they have the potential to alter the core values of modern societies. To what extent will technology facilitate China’s rise?
Author: Cara Wallis Publisher: ISBN: Category : Cell phones Languages : en Pages : 692
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This dissertation, the result of 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork, is an exploration of the ways that young rural-to-urban migrant women working in the low-level service sector in Beijing engage with mobile phones to negotiate their identity and create meaning in relation to themselves and others in the city. This research is situated within the particular socio-cultural and historical context of Beijing in the new millennium, where nearly three decades of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" have resulted in an urban, consumer-driven, networked society that exists far removed from rural regions that are discursively constructed as "backward" and "other." Occupying a space in between is a vast population of rural "peasants" who have journeyed to China's cities to seek work and a better life despite extremely difficult conditions that are a result of both structural impediments and cultural prejudices. In such a milieu, young rural women in particular are configured as passive, of "low quality," and in need of "development." Drawing from theories of the fluidity of identity, hybridity, the social construction of gender, and Foucaultian notions of power and discourse, this research uses an intersectional framework that considers gender, class, and place to understand migrant women's diverse engagement with and understanding of mobile phones. For the women in this study, mobile phones become key signifiers of urban modernity and citizenship in China's burgeoning consumer society. They are also linked to "modern" notions of essentialized femininity and as such are associated with gendered discourses and practices. In addition, cell phones enrich and expand social networks and open up new possibilities for dating and intimacy. At the same time, mobile phones can create new disciplinary practices that lead to exclusion, and employers use mobile phones as a method of control. This study adds to the body of scholarship that insists that practices and understandings of new communication technologies must be studied not only among a certain age group or gender, but also as these are intricately connected to and arise within a particular discursive context. In this way, we gain a richer understanding of "technological culture."
Author: X. Shen Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1403905509 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 233
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This book provides a detailed insight into China's endeavours to acquire the advanced technical competencies which lie at the heart of modern telecommunications. Distinctively detailed first hand material is presented in two contrasting case studies in the field of public digital switching systems. The book explores the deep problems that beset the former socialist system, how these are changing in the face of China's economic transition and its distinctive technological policy of 'walking on two legs'. An invaluable guide to China, The Chinese Road to High Technology also offers important insights into the issues facing other developing countries.
Author: Theodor Leuenberger Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642756336 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 287
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Access to science and technology worldwide is achieved by active participation in open international scientific research, as well as through technological capability that is decisive in catching up with world developments in science and technology. In other words, it is the "national system of innovation" which determines a country's assimilation capacity. The universities, research institutions, the technological infrastructure, industrial training schemes, information networks and technical institutions in general provide the foundation for a solid, steady development. Therefore policies directed toward strengthening the national system of innovation are essential for a catching-up strategy. But even more important is the presence of skilled and experienced people with the necessary connections to the scientific and technological infrastructure of the world at large. this applies to China in particular. Whether or not the technological potential will be developed, depends on the technological and industrial strategies promoted by the Chinese leadership. In addition, the costs and benefits of technological development are affected by the prevalent evolutionary stage of a country's political framework and fiscal regime. There must be a strong coordination between overall economic policies and technology policy. A sucessful management of technology is only possible through a "technological package" including management, financial and marketing skills.
Author: Yu Zhou Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 9780742555808 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 218
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In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry describes the emergence and growth of this industry in China through a historically situated analysis of China's leading science park, Beijing's Zhongguancun, also known as China's Silicon Valley. Zhou challenges the prevailing view that foreign multinational corporations and exports are the driving forces for technological progress in less developed countries by arguing that, in the case of China, it is the conjunction of domestic and export markets that has provided the main impetus to technological learning and the development of industry competitiveness. This is the best treatment to date of China's most important innovation region. It will be useful for scholars and students in the fields of economics, regional sciences, geography, planning, sociology, information technology, and business management, as well as for anyone interested in the rise of China and global technological development.
Author: Claudio Petti Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 0857938991 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 209
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'This unique book offers a series of case studies about how technology creation has evolved in China. This is an in-depth perspective about the trajectory and the entrepreneurial transformations of some successful high-tech Chinese companies in different industries. The book pictures as well the roles played by government, universities and companies in fostering regional systems of innovation in different parts of China. Written by Chinese and foreign experts, those views are not partial; authors reveal an untruncated and thorough analysis.' Dominique Jolly, SKEMA Business School, France Bringing technologies to the market, thereby creating profits, high-qualified jobs and industrial upgrading is one of the means by which China can fuel its brand new growth model based on innovation and sustainability. Much is known about the mechanisms of technological entrepreneurship. But how does this happen in China? Who is doing what? Is there a 'Chinese way' to do technological entrepreneurship? This thought-provoking book provides readers with a closer look at these issues and clarifies them through a number of case studies discussed from the perspectives of both Chinese and international contributors. Technological Entrepreneurship in China offers a comprehensive and practical assessment of technological entrepreneurship in China. Exclusively based on cases, the book tackles the issues of technological entrepreneurship in China from a systemic view. In so doing the book provides an account of the main factors at work behind Chinese technological entrepreneurship and their interplay, the past and present transitions facing Chinese technology-based enterprises, and how those transitions were and are being dealt with. It offers a glimpse in a huge natural experiment that will prove insightful for both scholars and policymakers.
Author: Chien-Hsun Chen Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing ISBN: 9781781958865 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 186
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This book will strongly appeal to those affiliated to multinational enterprises: managers, brokers, dealers and investors, as well as academics and researchers specialising in business economics and Asian studies.
Author: Cara Wallis
Author: Cara Wallis
Author: Dennis Zuev
Author: Liisa Ecola
Author: AA.VV.
Author: Cara Wallis
Author: X. Shen
Author: Theodor Leuenberger
Author: Yu Zhou
Author: Claudio Petti
Author: Chien-Hsun Chen