Xiaoling Zhang is a lecturer in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, the University of Nottingham, UK. She researches on the transformation of media, culture and society in China. Yongnian Zheng is Professor and Director of Research in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of 13 books, including Technological Empowerment, De Facto Federalism in China, Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China and Globalization and State Transformation in China, and co-editor of, amongst other books, The Chinese Communist Party in Reform.

• Introduction. 1. Historical Imagination in the Study of Chinese Digital Civil Society 2. Dancing Thumbs: Mobile Telephony in Contemporary China 3. Regulating E Gao: Futile Efforts of Recentralization? 4. In the Name of Good Governance: E-Government, Internet Pornography, and Political Censorship in China 5. Chinese Intellectuals and Internet in the Formation of a New Collective Memory 6. From "Foreign Propaganda" to "International Communication": China’s Promotion of Soft Power in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies 7. Web Engineering in the Chinese Context: "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend" 8. The Political Cost of Information Control in China: The Nation-State and Governance

"In short, this is a useful and concise volume that covers most important issues related to the politics of China’s Internet...Those who need an introduction to the Internet or to brush up before giving a related lecture would do well to read this collection." -- Barrett L. McCormick, Pacific Affairs: Volume 83, No. 3 – September 2010"A valuable scholarly contribution... In reading through the book's diverse chapters, students of Chinese politics and telecommunications policy will gain valuable insights into how the Chinese government developed its current approach to regulating, shaping and embracing ICTs. The papers raise important questions, not only about the CCP's strategies and challenges in managing ICTs, but also about China's challenge to the future of the global Internet's technical architecture and governance as its Western inventors originally conceived it." - Rebecca MacKinnon, New America Foundation, Washington DC, The China Journal, No. 65, January 2011

Xiaoling Zhang is a lecturer in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, the University of Nottingham, UK. She researches on the transformation of media, culture and society in China. Yongnian Zheng is Professor and Director of Research in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of 13 books, including Technological Empowerment, De Facto Federalism in China, Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China and Globalization and State Transformation in China, and co-editor of, amongst other books, The Chinese Communist Party in Reform.

• Introduction. 1. Historical Imagination in the Study of Chinese Digital Civil Society 2. Dancing Thumbs: Mobile Telephony in Contemporary China 3. Regulating E Gao: Futile Efforts of Recentralization? 4. In the Name of Good Governance: E-Government, Internet Pornography, and Political Censorship in China 5. Chinese Intellectuals and Internet in the Formation of a New Collective Memory 6. From "Foreign Propaganda" to "International Communication": China’s Promotion of Soft Power in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies 7. Web Engineering in the Chinese Context: "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend" 8. The Political Cost of Information Control in China: The Nation-State and Governance

"In short, this is a useful and concise volume that covers most important issues related to the politics of China’s Internet...Those who need an introduction to the Internet or to brush up before giving a related lecture would do well to read this collection." -- Barrett L. McCormick, Pacific Affairs: Volume 83, No. 3 – September 2010"A valuable scholarly contribution... In reading through the book's diverse chapters, students of Chinese politics and telecommunications policy will gain valuable insights into how the Chinese government developed its current approach to regulating, shaping and embracing ICTs. The papers raise important questions, not only about the CCP's strategies and challenges in managing ICTs, but also about China's challenge to the future of the global Internet's technical architecture and governance as its Western inventors originally conceived it." - Rebecca MacKinnon, New America Foundation, Washington DC, The China Journal, No. 65, January 2011

Xiaoling Zhang is a lecturer in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, the University of Nottingham, UK. She researches on the transformation of media, culture and society in China. Yongnian Zheng is Professor and Director of Research in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. He is the author of 13 books, including Technological Empowerment, De Facto Federalism in China, Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China and Globalization and State Transformation in China, and co-editor of, amongst other books, The Chinese Communist Party in Reform.

• Introduction. 1. Historical Imagination in the Study of Chinese Digital Civil Society 2. Dancing Thumbs: Mobile Telephony in Contemporary China 3. Regulating E Gao: Futile Efforts of Recentralization? 4. In the Name of Good Governance: E-Government, Internet Pornography, and Political Censorship in China 5. Chinese Intellectuals and Internet in the Formation of a New Collective Memory 6. From "Foreign Propaganda" to "International Communication": China’s Promotion of Soft Power in the Age of Information and Communication Technologies 7. Web Engineering in the Chinese Context: "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend" 8. The Political Cost of Information Control in China: The Nation-State and Governance

"In short, this is a useful and concise volume that covers most important issues related to the politics of China’s Internet...Those who need an introduction to the Internet or to brush up before giving a related lecture would do well to read this collection." -- Barrett L. McCormick, Pacific Affairs: Volume 83, No. 3 – September 2010"A valuable scholarly contribution... In reading through the book's diverse chapters, students of Chinese politics and telecommunications policy will gain valuable insights into how the Chinese government developed its current approach to regulating, shaping and embracing ICTs. The papers raise important questions, not only about the CCP's strategies and challenges in managing ICTs, but also about China's challenge to the future of the global Internet's technical architecture and governance as its Western inventors originally conceived it." - Rebecca MacKinnon, New America Foundation, Washington DC, The China Journal, No. 65, January 2011