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OverviewExplores the increasingly intimate relationship between China and wireless technology, taking the wave as a central concept Provides a new theoretical apparatus that reimagines key issues around technological evolution in a shifting geopolitical landscape Offers a corrective to certain myopias of Western media theory Presents a deep, historical engagement with issues and debates surrounding Chinese cyberculture Brings together contemporary media theory with modern Chinese philosophical thought In the 21st century city, wireless waves constitute an imperceptible, immersive, all-encompassing environment. Nowhere is this more so than in China, where a hyperdense network of mobile media has restructured daily life. Anna Greenspan re-imagines the relationship between China and wirelessness by synthesising contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought. It focuses specifically on the work of three critical figures: Tan Sitong ??? (1865 1898), Xiong Shili ??? (1885 1968) and Mou Zongsan ??? (1909 1995). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Anna GreenspanPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781399519731ISBN 10: 1399519735 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 31 October 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"Anna Greenspan adeptly interweaves the concept of Wave, linking premodern Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist thought with today's rapidly changing, wireless China. This elucidates the historical and metaphysical underpinnings of contemporary Chinese media culture in all its intricacy. It leaves us keen to see where the waves of technology will carry China amid current geopolitical turbulence.-- ""Chen Quifan, author of Waste Tide and AI2041: Ten Visions for Our Future""" Author InformationAnna Greenspan is Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai. She is the author of Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade (Oxford University Press, 2014), India and the IT Revolution: Networks of Globalization (Palgrave, 2005). She also writes for a non-academic audience including these three books: Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 (Urbanomic, 2015), Future Mutations: Technology and the Evolution of the Species (Time Spiral Press, 2014) and Urbanatomy: Shanghai 2008 (China Intercontinental Press, 2008). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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