Tibet as a factor impacting China studies in India

Soni, Sharad K.; Marwah, Reena

doi:10.1080/14631369.2011.605543

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“…This reveals the Chinese government's intention to show its people that the territorial dispute has been solved (Deepak, 2011;Soni and Marwah, 2011). This is different from B, which was extracted from Google Maps and encircles Arunachal Pradesh in dashed lines, 15 illustrating to the users that this territory's sovereignty is contested.…”

Section: Web Map Screeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tianditu: China’s first official online mapping service

Chen

Yap

Lee

2013

Media, Culture & Society

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Tianditu is China’s first state-sponsored web mapping service. Beijing considers Tianditu part and parcel of its burgeoning endeavor to build a ‘digital China’. The Chinese state created Tianditu to regain some of the ground lost when its monopoly on geographic information was effectively broken. This effort goes hand in hand with Beijing’s intention to compete with and shrink the space occupied by Google mapping services (Google Maps, Google Earth, etc.). Although Tianditu does bestow a certain degree of power on civilian users to interact with and explore geographic data, for political and social reasons the Chinese state tightly controls Tianditu. It is a tool that the regime uses to maintain political power and push ideologies it supports. This type of top-down reinforcement of static geographic knowledge is a far cry from the concept of civilian empowerment as understood in liberal democracies.

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Section: Web Map Screeningmentioning

confidence: 99%