China has been stereotypically perceived as a place of backwardness. However, the 21st century has been a transitional period for China to express its cultural power. This book explores how digital technology, in particular virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), is playing a role in China’s rejuvenation, especially in relation to cultural displays, performances and art exhibitions. It examines how audiences, both in China and globally, respond to Digital China through digital immersive art. Drawing on the author's anthropological research and empirical studies on stakeholders and audience reception, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of transformative power of digital technology and its impact on cultural experience in contemporary China. The ‘reform of the cultural system’ over the past two decades in China has fostered a techno-cultural imaginary mixed with the celebration of Chinese civilisation and advanced by digital technology and entrepreneurs. Such a hybrid imaginary influences how people view and consume digital immersive art. Much digital immersive art within China is thus viewed within the framework of modernisation, as the case studies in this book will show. Outside China, however, the dominant narrative of techno-orientalism prevails, constructing a different image of Digital China, a technocratic state.

"A Computational Approach to Digital Chinese Painting and Calligraphy" is a technical book on computer science and its applications in the arts. It focuses on Oriental digital arts, in particular Chinese arts and painting, offering a multi-disciplinary treatment from the angles of computer graphics, interactive techniques, human-computer interaction, and artificial intelligence. The book also discusses the unique difficulties and challenges of using the computer to produce Oriental arts, including research results by the authors and their lessons and engineering experiences behind these efforts. Songhua Xu is a computer scientist of Zhejiang University and Yale University, as well as an honorary researcher of the University of Hong Kong. Francis C.M. Lau is Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he leads the Systems Research Group in the Department of Computer Science. Yunhe Pan is Professor of Computer Science at Zhejiang University as well as Deputy President of Chinese Academy of Engineering.

This book contains the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on New Media Development and Modernized Education (NMDME 2023) which was held in a hybrid form from October 13th to 15th, 2023. The conference topics include Educational Sciences, Innovative Applications of Teaching Technology, Modernized Vocational Education, Digital Media Technology, Digital Media Technology and Applications, Virtual Technology and Intelligent Media Communication, Computational Communication, and Smart Media. The conference provided a platform for discussing scientific research findings and cutting-edge technologies in the fields of new media development and modernized education to encourage collaboration in the industrialization of academic achievements. We invited specialists and intellectuals to attend the conference, sharing their excellent contributions and perspectives in the speeches. We hope that the scientific attitudes and skills developed through research will encourage scholars worldwide to contribute to the development of knowledge generated by research. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the conference chair, publication chairs, technical program committee chairs, local organizing chairs, program committee chairs, conference secretariat, and conference sponsors for their financial support, which made the successful organization of NMDME 2023 possible. We hope that this conference will continue to be held in the coming years, publishing more insightful articles with inspiring research.

The two-volume set LNCS 12794-12795 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Culture and Computing, C&C 2021, which was held as part of HCI International 2021 and took place virtually during July 24-29, 2021. The total of 1276 papers and 241 posters included in the 39 HCII 2021 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 5222 submissions. The papers included in the HCII-C&C volume set were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: ICT for cultural heritage; technology and art; visitors’ experiences in digital culture; Part II: Design thinking in cultural contexts; digital humanities, new media and culture; perspectives on cultural computing.

This book objectively presents the achievements, status quo, and trends of China's Internet development in 2022, systematically summarizes the major experiences of China's Internet development, and deeply analyses the strategic planning, policies and measures, and development achievements, level and trends in China in terms of eight aspects, i.e. information infrastructure, digital economy, e-government, digital society, cyber content, cybersecurity, cyber law, international cyberspace governance, and exchange and cooperation. This book further optimizes the index system of China's Internet development and comprehensively evaluates the work of cybersecurity and informatisation in 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) across the country from six dimensions, so as to reflect the Internet development level in China and various regions in a comprehensive, accurate and objective way. This book collects the latest research results on China's Internet development and selects the most recent cases and reliable data. With diverse topics and in-depth discussions, this book is of great significance to those involved in the Internet field in government departments, Internet enterprises, scientific research institutions, and universities who hope to fully understand China's Internet development.