Automating Governance in China?

<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d2713293e44">This book considers the interplay between the affordances of technologies, the experiences and processes of technological systems, and the process of learning and adaptation by state actors as part of governance reform in China. It offers detailed studies of specific projects and applications that are automated or quasi-automated in organising and governing social, economic, and cultural lives in the world’s largest techno-authoritarian regime. Written by scholars from six countries across four continents, case studies illustrate new modes of digital governance employed by the Chinese government, as it interacts and collaborates with technology companies, ordinary citizens, and other key stakeholders. They offer new insights on the deployment of automated decision-making in authoritarian governance, and on its application and implementation in real-life scenarios. In a broader sense, the book contributes to global debates about the integration of decision-making technologies in governmental practices. </p>

Two New Doctorates

Lund University. On Friday, 30 May, Joanne Kuai successfully defended her dissertation “AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age” at Karlstad University. This dissertation that dives into how AI is reshaping journalism in China and beyond, comparing developments in the EU and US, and exploring the shifting power dynamics between media, tech platforms, and the state. 

On the decline of Chinese Studies in Australia - Asian Studies Association of Australia

Over the last several years, there has been a decline in Chinese Studies in Australian universities, with falling student numbers, ever-more limited teaching offerings and diminishing research opportunities. At the same time, universities have never been more successful in the international education market and in science research partnerships with China. While the decline of Chinese […]

Academics say China studies sector in 'crisis' amid a funding shortage and 'climate of fear'

Academics warn policymakers may make stupid or risky decisions because of a lack of knowledge about China.

Moving Data Moving People – Reorganizing Trust through China's Social Credit System

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

Book Review by Rice Paper Reads “The Nanjing Massacre was a two month long systematic mass murder, rape, and pillaging of the civilian population in Nanjing, China. It represents one of the m…

Going out in Public in Contemporary China: Exposure, Surveillance, Secrecy | IIAS

Classical Chinese Studies on Mastodon

Please add yourself if you're an academic studying classical Chinese texts (Yijing, Zhuangzi, Shangshu, Hanfeizi, etc.), Chinese history, Chinese philosophy, or just interested in the field. You can find the current list of respondents here. Cultivate your follows with diligence.