Towards a new 'electrical world': is there a Chinese Techhnological Sublime?

The chapter triangulates multiple sources (textual analysis, survey and ethnography) to advance an hypotesis on a fundamental difference between the cultural meaning of technology in China compared with the Anglo-Saxon and European cultures: while the latter's technological imaginary are dominated, for historical reasons that are outlined, by the idea of technology as a means for individual transcendence, Chinese culture apepars to have produced throughout its history a peculiar frame of technology as a means for collective, national rebirth. This has implications at all levels: from individual patterns of adoption and domestication to national policies, to the Chinese hacking scene.