Overview

In the twenty-first 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 synthesizing contemporary media theory with modern Chinese thought. It focuses specifically on the work of three critical figures: Tan Sitong (18651898), Xiong Shili (18851968) and Mou Zongsan (19091995).

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Author:   Anna Greenspan (Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media, NYU Shanghai)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399519748

ISBN 10:   1399519743
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   28 February 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface K-Waves Key Terms Key Characters　　　　　　　　 Acknowledgements 　 Introduction. Historical Waves; Electric Waves; Wave Philosophy 5G The Fifth Wave Media Infrastructure　 Elemental Media Wave Cosmo-ontology 　 Chapter 1. From Oscillation to Undulation: Chinese Culture and Techno-Modernity Ti-Yong 體用 Chinese Learning for Essence, Western Learning for Practice The Roots of Ti/Yong Xiong Shili 熊十力 The Yogacara Revival New Confucianism New Treatise Chapter 2. Contraction and Expansion: From Wires to Wirelessness Telegraph Sovereignty Techno-Nationalism The Internet with Chinese Characteristics The Telegraph and Globalization Technological Time 　 Chapter 3. Repetition: Pirate Culture and the Cell Phone The Special Economic Zone The Shenzhen Epoch The Shenzhen Myth Shanzhai 山寨 Land and Sea Simulation　 Chapter 4. Vibration: The Body Electric Infrastructural Imaginary Mysterious Waves Tan Sitong 譚嗣同 The Ether and Occult Materialism Yitai 以太 The Ether and The Spectrum Embodied Experiments Chapter 5. Immersion: The Sentient City Sentient City vs Smart City Alien Intelligence Nonhuman Time Transcendental Materialism Mou Zongsan 牟宗三 Surveillance　 City Gods　 Cultivation 　 Conclusion. Apprehending the Whole of the Wave 　 Bibliography

Reviews

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""

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 <i>Waste Tide</i> and <i>AI2041:Ten Visions for Our Future</i> *

Author Information

Anna 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).

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