China's telecommunications industry: development patterns and policies

Pacific Affairs

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 175-194

  Harwit, Eric ^a  

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

CHINA;

EID: 0031761013     PISSN: 0030851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2760975     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Heather Hudson, When Telephones Reach the Village (Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex, 1984).
2. Jarice Hanson and Uma Narula, New Communication Technologies in Developing Countries (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990).
3. Robert Saunders, Jeremy Warford and Björn Wellenius, Telecommunications and Economic Development, 2d ed. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1994).
4. Ben A. Petrazzini, The Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform in Developing Countries (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1995).
5. Lin Sun, "Telecommunications Development in China: Problems, Policies, and Prospects," in Global Telecommunications Policies, ed. Meheroo Jussawalla (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993), pp. 171-92.
6. John Ure, "Telecommunications in China and the Four Dragons," in Telecommunications in Asia, ed. John Ure (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1995), pp. 11-48.
7. William Chismar, Meheroojussawalla and Marcellus Snow, "US Provision of Telecommunications Goods and Services in the PRC," Telecommunications Policy, vol. 20, no. 6 (1996), pp. 455-64.
8. Zixiang Tan, "Internet in China," Proceedings of the 18th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Conference, Pacific Telecommunications Council, Honolulu (1996), pp. 621-26.
9. Paul Triolo and Peter Lovelock, "Up, Up, and Away - With Strings Attached," in China Business Review (November-December 1996), pp. 18-29.
10. Milton Mueller and Tan Zixiang, China in the Information Age (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 1997).
11. Hanson and Narula, New Communication Technologies, p. 50.
12. C. S. Swaminathan, "Role of Telecommunications in National Economy," in Telecommunications for National Development (Calcutta: India Chamber of Commerce, 1983), p. 83.
13. Hanson and Narula, New Communication Technologies, pp. 51-52.
14. Far Eastern Economic Review, April 7, 1994, p. 44.
15. Information on Africa is derived from Raymond U. Akwule's "Telecommunications in Africa: Policy and Management Trends," in Jussawalla, Global Telecommunications Policies, pp. 159-70.
16. This discussion is based on Petrazzini, The Political Economy of Telecommunications Reform, pp. 107-111.
17. For details on the Argentina case, see ibid., pp. 49-102.
18. Early history of the industry is found in Dangdai zhongguo deyoudian shiye (China's current posts and telecommunications industry) (Beijing: Dangdai zhongguo chubanshe, 1993), pp. 9-18.
19. China Telecommunications Construction (hereafter CTC), vol. 1, no. 4 (November/December 1989), p. 13.
20. For detail on this type of communication, see Frederick T. C. Yu, "Communications and Politics in Communist China," in Communications and Political Development, ed. Lucian Pye (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963), pp. 259-97.
21. CTC, vol. 1, no. 4 (November/December 1989), p. 13.
22. Andrew P. Hardy, "The Role of the Telephone in Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis" (Geneva: International Telecommunications Union, 1981), cited in Hudson, p. 43. The Chinese study that noted Hardy's work was written by Chen Yunqian, the director of the Economic and Technological Development Research Center of the MPT; her work was published in CTC, vol. 2, no. 3 (August/ September 1990), pp. 4-11.
23. Andrew P. Hardy, "The Role of the Telephone in Economic Development: An Empirical Analysis" (Geneva: International Telecommunications Union, 1981), cited in Hudson, p. 43. The Chinese study that noted Hardy's work was written by Chen Yunqian, the director of the Economic and Technological Development Research Center of the MPT; her work was published in CTC, vol. 2, no. 3 (August/ September 1990), pp. 4-11.
24. CTC, vol. 1, no. 4 (November/December 1989), p. 11.
25. Ure, "Telecommunications in China," p. 16.
26. Ibid., p. 17.
27. From 1996 interview in Beijing.
28. Ure, "Telecommunications in China," p. 16.
29. Interview in Beijing, 1996.
30. Ure, "Telecommunications in China," p. 16.
31. The following section is based on research and interviews conducted in Beijing and other Chinese cities in 1996 and 1997.