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The Digital Silk Road between National Rhetoric and Provincial Ambitions | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core

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We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2024 The Digital Silk Road (DSR) is usually described as the digital component of the Belt and Road Initiative that is reshaping the digital world order. Most existing research is concerned with the possible long-term consequences of the DSR rather than on what the DSR encompasses, how it developed and how it has changed since it was announced in 2015. We address this gap by reconstructing the origins of the DSR within China, with a focus on both rhetoric and concrete plans as they developed between central and provincial actors. We collected and analysed a corpus of 31 national and 130 provincial DSR-related plans. In contrast to prevailing views of the DSR as a unified, outward-facing strategy, we show that after an initial surge o

The Digital Silk Road between National Rhetoric and Provincial Ambitions | The China Quarterly | Cambridge Core Search Institution Login Search Hostname: page-component-5db58dd55d-688nx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-06-20T09:13:23.273Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false Home > Journals > The China Quarterly > Volume 261 > The Digital Silk Road between National Rhetoric and... English Français The China Quarterly Article contents Abstract Phase One: National-level Struggles to Control the DSR Narrative Phase Two: Digital Silk Road Policies at the Provincial Level Conclusion:

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