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China’s digital governance has provoked concerns from observers that the government has fully embraced the direction of “Big Brother” envisioned by George Orwell in 1984. Governing Digital China, a forthcoming book by Professor Daniela Stockmann (Hertie School) challenges this totalitarian top-down paradigm, arguing that China’s digital governance is radically different in practice.
On April 4th, Columbia World Projects, with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, organized a public conversation between Professor Junyan Jiang (Columbia) and Stockmann, which dug into the divide between perceptions and realities of digital governance during the Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping eras. Together, they explored the logic of citizen-influenced corporatism, the bottom-up influences of the country’s largest platforms, and whether the existing linkages between the Chinese state, tech companies, and citizens neatly map on to digital rulemaking beyond China’s borders.
This event was co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Global Center Beijing, and the Columbia Center for Political Economy. We invite you to watch the discussion below:
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Anna Marchese
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