Information Fantasies : Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China /

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"Information Fantasies focuses on the cultural practices and media imaginations around information technologies, cybernetics, and systems theory in late 1970s and 1980s China. Xiao Liu explores China's rise to prominence in the global economy through revisiting these earlier 'informat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liu, Xiao, 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Technological forecasting.
Intellectual life.
Information society.
Future, The, in popular culture.
HISTORY > Asia > China.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Futur dans la culture populaire.
Prevision technologique > Chine.
Societe informatisee > Chine.
Technological forecasting > China.
Information society > China.
China.
Chine > Vie intellectuelle > 1976-
China > Intellectual life > 1976-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Information Fantasies focuses on the cultural practices and media imaginations around information technologies, cybernetics, and systems theory in late 1970s and 1980s China. Xiao Liu explores China's rise to prominence in the global economy through revisiting these earlier 'information fantasies' present in science fiction, modernist writing, films, scientific treatises, historical monographs, and key intellectual debates"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (376 pages).
ISBN:9781452959481

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