This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond, the contributors argue that the mobile phone is in fact an important means by which one can understand a rapidly changing China, and the developing culture of mobile phone usage reflects both the cultural norms and struggle of the people.
Through a theoretical comparison of usage in the West and in China, the editors assert the uniqueness of Chinas experience, highlighting that Chinese society is being exposed simultaneously to a rapid process of industrialization and cyberization. The contributors maintain that such density of experience under a compressed period combined with a thick cultural heritage and a country still under a dictating rule provides a unique situation and offers deep insights into Chinese culture in general.
This work will be of great interest to all students and scholars of Asian communication studies, ICT and Chinese culture and society.
1. The Great Mobile Revolution and the Chinese Encounter: An
Introduction Rodney Wai-Chi CHU Part I Overview: From Global to China
2. From
West to East and Beyond: Main Tenets in the Studies of the Mobile Phone
Leopoldina FORTUNATI
3. Riding the Double Juggernaut: Depicting the Chinese
Mobile Communication Context Rodney Wai-Chi CHU Part II Theory, History and
Comparison
4. Mobile Communication and the Fourth Communicative Revolution
Leopoldina FORTUNATI
5. The History of the Mobile Phone in China Jing WANG
and Chung-Tai CHENG
6. Comparative Development of the Mobile Phone in China
and Japan Eric HARWIT
7. Mobile Communication and Individualization in Europe
and in China, Leopoldina FORTUNATI and Pui-lam LAW Part III Techno-social
Interplay: Culture and Identity Tension
8. Mobile Networks and Civil Society:
Philosophical Reflections on Organizing Social Participation in the Context
of Chinese Society Silvia ELALUF-CALDERWOOD
9. Social Networks and
Individualism: Some Issues on the Role of the Mobile Phone in Urban China,
Boxu YANG
10. The Identity and Sociability of the Mobile Phone in China,
Leopoldina FORTUNATI and Shanhua YANG Part IV Exploring Chineseness of Mobile
Phone Use
11. College Students Self-positioning and the Cell Phone
Consumption Jing SONG and Shanhua YANG
12. Romance and Sexual Ideologies in
SMS Manuals Circulating among Migrant Workers in Southern China Mei-Lee Angel
LIN
13. Mobile Phone Usage in Chinese Society Yinni PENG and Rodney Wai-Chi
CHU
14. Privatizing Public Spaces and Personalizing Private Spaces: The
Challenge of Mobile Communication in Beijing, Boxu YANG with Gai BO & Li LI
Rodney Wai-chi Chu is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interest is focusing on Chinas modernization, with particular reference to the socio-cultural dimension of ICTs on contemporary Chinese.
Leopoldina Fortunati is Professor of Sociology of Communication and Sociology of Cultural Processes in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Udine. She has conducted several researches in the field of gender studies, cultural processes and communication technologies.
Pui-lam Law is currently assistant professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and visiting research fellow at the Centre for Creative Industries Studies of Peking University. His research interest is on modernity and social development in China.
Shanhua Yang is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Peking University. He conducts field research in various areas of China, including Shanxi, Zhejiang, Hebei, Sichuan, Guangdong, and Shanghai, and has published extensively on rural Chinese society and the lives of rural Chinese, including migrant workers.
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