Table of Contents

1: Industrial Policy and the Chinese Telecommunications Industry
2: China's Telecommunications History and Policy Trajectory
3: Telecommunications Competition in the 1990s and 2000s
4: China's Internet and Government Policy
5: Building the Network: The Role of Telecommunications Equipment Companies
6: Telecommunications in Shanghai: A Case Focus on the Municipal Government's Role
7: The Digital Divide of Telephones and the Internet
8: Industrial Policy and Lessons of the Telecommunications Revolution

About the Author

Eric Harwit is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii. A 1984 graduate of Cornell University, he received a diploma from the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing in 1990, and his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992.

Professor Harwit is a frequent speaker at international conferences, including the World Economic Forum regional conference in Beijing, the Harvard Asia Business Conference, and the Yale University Business in China conference. He and his work have been cited in Time magazine, Business Week, The Economist, Asian Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, and other print and broadcast media outlets.

Reviews

`China's Telecommunication Revolution will be the benchmark study for students, researchers and scholars of China's media and telecommunications. It will be an essential reading in courses on global media policy and regional development. In addition, Harwit's book is clearly written, making it accessible for non-academic readers interested in China's policy-making institutions.'
Michael Keane (QUT), Queensland University of Technology's "China-East Asia-Media-New Media" Publications Reviews
`a welcome addition... certainly a book that should be read by a wider audience interested in China's ascendancy as an economic superpower'
Pacific Affairs