Prototype Nation: Silvia Lindtner on what drives Chinese tech innovation, and how tech drives Chinese statecraft
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How Technology Is a Form of Control in China
There's various forms of technological control in china that don't necessarily always take the shape and form of top on authoritarian control, but a form of control that actually operates through these positive attitudes and feelings associated to technology. So thereis this chinese erm that kaiser you yo yor very familiar with, amshore chung nung liang - which is translated into english as positive energy. And so in the book, i sort of trace how techn logy itself became enrolled in this project of associating the nation with these positive feelings rit and technology,. again, historically being associated with such positive values. Rate so a what i really try to convey in the book as well
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