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'Global Village' or the 'Culture of Progress'? Telecommunications and Television in China

logical artifacts exercise a social effect that reflects both the ’westernness’ and ’superiority’ associated with that artifact and works to transport the values of the ’developed’ culture to the ’underdeveloped’ culture. The current enthusiastic integration of western technologies into the Chinese culture provides an ideal example of this phenomenon. In this paper an attempt will be made to briefly examine the development, expansion, and usage of two communications technologies-telecommunications and television-and highlight how the integration of these technologies into the Chinese culture is representative of China’s growing desire for western-type technological development and westernisation of the Chinese value system. Significantly, telecommunications has been identified by Chinese policy makers as one of the top two or three key technologies for development in China