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Schiller, Dan Nerone, John Chan, Anita Say Ciafone, Amanda Zhao, Yuezhi Shen, Hong 2017-08-10T19:52:04Z 2017-08-10T19:52:04Z 2019-08-11T09:15:21Z 2017-04-19 2017-05 This dissertation examines the multifaceted interactions between China and the global Internet in the past three decades, especially China’s outward cyber expansion, or the “going out” program that has gained momentum since the mid-2000s, and explores the changing social class relations that accompany and shape this evolution. It offers a political economic analysis of how units of Internet capital and state agencies in China are impinging on the international Internet system. It also investigates both the structure and agency of Chinese Internet capital by examining the rise of an Internet capitalist class fraction in China and its intricate relationships with both the state and other transnational capitalists. Based on intensive research into both primary and secondary data sources, this dissertation shows that instead of being confined to a repressive inward-looking national “intranet,” China in fact has actively engaged with the political economy of the global Internet since the 1980s – and is now increasingly projecting power outward in this sphere. Conceptualizing the Chinese Internet industry as an expansive sector that encompasses hardware and equipment vendors, network operators, web services and applications providers, as well as major government and corporate network users, this dissertation unpacks the complex and dynamic state-capital interactions that characterize these different industrial subsectors. It argues that, although the state has retained some critical maneuvering room over its internet capital in the construction of an International Internet “with Chinese characteristics,” the complex and often contradictory interplay between the territorial logic of the state and the expansive logic of capitalist accumulation, and between the structure and agency of Chinese Internet capital, continue to create tensions and conflicts. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01 The student, Hong Shen, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-18 at 10:37. The student, Hong Shen, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-04-18 at 10:41. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-04-19 at 09:07. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10841 on 2017-08-10 at 14:31:03 Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-10T19:52:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 SHEN-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf: 2705562 bytes, checksum: ee423d652be879a8f9ac59be0a11308e (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4206 bytes, checksum: 8ad416f80474ef716367eb42fb4687da (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4552 bytes, checksum: 3f476472cb42f7495ec7f6bee54d100a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-19 Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102642 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:25:30Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Limited Restriction Lifted for Item 102642 on 2019-08-11T09:15:21Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/97589 en Copyright 2017 Hong Shen China Internet industry Internet policy Global Internet governance Political economy Outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) Internationalization """Going out""" Across the Great (Fire) Wall: China and the global Internet text text Inst of Communications Rsch Communications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.