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<p>Featuring leading scholars on ‘Chinese internets’ – in the plural – from around the world, this interdisciplinary book explores the changing digital landscape in China and provides insight into contemporary Chinese techno-geopolitics.</p><p>Policymakers, commentators and the mass media have widely viewed ‘Chinese tech’ as a unitary and statist monolith. This predominant view, however, is not only incomplete but has become increasingly obsolete. Using a pluralist and multilayered approach to analysing Chinese techno-geopolitics, this volume addresses the following important questions:</p><ul> <li>Who are the key players in ‘Chinese internets’ today?</li> <li>What role do government agencies, state-owned enterprises, private companies and individual netizens play?</li> <li>How do ‘Chinese internets’ operate at the global, regional, national or local levels?</li> <li>How are external world or regional events influencing or being influenced by geopolitical patterns within China?</li> </ul><p><i>The Geopolitics of Chinese Internets </i>will be a key resource for policymakers, scholars, researchers and practitioners interested in Chinese techno-geopolitics and the changing digital landscape in China. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Information, Communication & Society</i>.</p>