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SHS East Asia - The Great Wall - OutlineThe Great WallRough outlineIn our project we want to identify analogies between the stone Great Wall and the so called Great Firewall, the regulation of accessibility of information over the internet, and discuss their link to the inward locking mentality of China's ruling elite and how this walls prevent China from innovation and change.MotivationWe have chosen this subject because of the discussion that emerged from the Chinese censorship of web pages of different companies and organization from all over the world. From the outside this gap between our western mentality, where the internet is almost a synonym for free, raw and unlimited information and the morbid, apparently urge drive of the Chinese regime to control the influence on, and the evolution of their people seems incomprehensible and purely sinister. With our work we want to identify the origin of this behavior of the Chinese government and try to see its decisions from another perspective.ApproachAs the Great Firewall is more an ideological wall than a real, physically existing wall, we will try to identify the meaning of the stone Great Wall in history and the influence of its myths and its relevance as a symbol for modern China. Our next step will consist of drawing up the influence of the western information society and culture on China's evolution. After this the challenge will be to find relations between the information society and the identitiy of modern China and analyze if and how the information control can be seen as a new Great (Fire)Wall.BibliographyGODWIN, C. Chu, YANAN Ju, The Great Wall In Ruin, State University of New York Press, 1993MENGIN, Françoise, Cyber China, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 |
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