The Emergence of China's Smart State

Rogier Creemers is a university lecturer in Modern Chinese Studies. With a background in sinology and international relations, his research focuses on Chinese domestic digital technology policy, as well as China's growing importance in global digital affairs. He is the principal investigator of the NWO Vidi Project "The Smart State: Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and the Law in China." For the Leiden Asia Centre, he directs a project on China and global cybersecurity, funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is also a co-founder of DigiChina, a joint initiative with Stanford University and New America. Straton Papagianneas is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University, where he studies the automation and digitisation of legal courts in the People’s Republic of China. He is strongly interested in the study of Chinese law & society, governance, automation of justice and administration, and its surrounding ethical and normative questions. He also teaches courses on Chinese law & society, governance, and automation & justice. Outside of his academic work, Papagianneas is an editorial board member at Sinotalks. Straton is also affiliated with the Leiden University’s VVI Institute for Law & Society, and the e-Law centre for Law and Digital Technologies. Adam Knight is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Area Studies at Leiden University, where he focuses on the design, implementation and consequences of the Chinese social credit system. He frequently contributes to reports in media such as the BBC, Financial Times and South China Morning Post.

Introduction by Rogier Creemers

Part I: Digital Concepts and Institutions

Chapter 1: The Cyberspace Administration of China: A Portrait by Jamie Horsley and Rogier Creemers

Chapter 2: The Stumbling Smart State: Fragmented Policy Experimentation & Dubious Consolidation by Straton Papagianneas & Adam Knight

Part II: Strategic Emerging Technologies

Chapter 3: China’s Industrial Policy for Semiconductors by John Lee

Chapter 4: Fintech in China: Trading off Growth and Risk, Innovation and Control by Martin Chorzempa

Part III: International Engagement and Confrontation

Chapter 5: China: A Technical Standardisation Power? by Tim Rühlig

Chapter 6: China and Global Data Transfers: Implications for Future Rulemaking by Hunter Dorwart

Chapter 7: China and Global Internet Governance: ITU, ICANN and the World Internet Conference by Gianluigi Negro

Chapter 8: Becoming a Cyber Superpower: China Builds Offensive Capability with Military, Government and Private Sector Forces by Mei Danowski

Part IV: Local Dynamics

Chapter 9: China – A Rising Tech Power? National Ambitions and Local Realities by Genia Kostka

Chapter 10: Opening the City Through Debordering IT: The Making of an Innovation Ecosystem in a Post-Industrial Special Economic Zone in China by Yujing Tan

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