Development as Culture: Human Development and Information Development in China
Development as Culture: Human Development and Information Development in China
This chapter analyzes the dilemma between China’s impressive internet expansion and the predicament in human development characterized by a prevalent culture of institutional and interpersonal distrust. The distrusting relationship within the citizenry and between the state and society online and offline, has slowed down the insecure state in undertaking substantial reforms, and prevented the weary citizens from organizing transformative networks. The chapter examines China’s developmentalism since the 1980s, fortified by the coalition of the political and economic elite, and its human development, focusing on the commodification of justice and rights, as well as the cultural crisis of distrust under the Chinese model of developmentalism. It suggests the success in China’s information development is more salient in the economic front than the social-cultural front, consistent with the Chinese model of developmentalism.
Keywords: China, developmentalism, internet, social networks, social disparity, trust
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