Alessandro Rippa

Oct 28, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alessandro Rippa

BOOK REVIEW Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border. Andrew Ong. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, USA and London, UK, 2023, pp. xxii + 253. ISBN 978-1-501-77071-5 (pbk). First published: 28 October 2024 No abstract is available for this article.

Jul 21, 2023 | cambridge.org | Darren Byler |Alessandro Rippa |Tim Oakes |Adam Liebman

This paper explores the genesis and growth of the current Chinese wireless network infrastructures by pulling together the historical threads of two telecommunications infrastructures: first, the development of the first-tier inter-provincial optical backbone, the “Eight Vertical and Eight Horizontal Fibre-optic Grid,” in the late 1980s and 1990s; and second, the deployment of two broadband-access cellular networks, the third-generation (3G) cellular networks in 2008 and the fourth-generation...