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Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China, written by, Xiao Liu

In: Asiascape: Digital Asia
Author: Gabriele de Seta1
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  • 1 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Online Publication Date:
22 May 2020
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Xiao Liu. Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 328 pp. ISBN 978-1-51790-274-2. Price: $28.00.

Before the 20th of April, 1994, when the first modem handshake connected China to the internet, more than a decade of academic research, popular culture, literature, and cinema had laid the groundwork for the role that information would later play in the country’s socioeconomic development. Xiao Liu’s Information Fantasies fills a gap in media history that is often acknowledged but has not yet received a proper examination: the decade before the Chinese internet,
Title:
Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China, written by, Xiao Liu
Article Type:
Book Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/22142312-12340121
Language:
English
Pages:
145–148
In:
Asiascape: Digital Asia
In:
Volume 7: Issue 1-2
Publisher:
Brill
E-ISSN:
2214-2312
Print ISSN:
2214-2304
Subjects:
Comparative Studies, Asian Studies, Comparative Social Sciences, Social Sciences

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