Castells, “The Structure and Dynamics of Global Multi-Media Business Networks,” International Journal of Communications 2 (2008): 707–748. See also K. C. Ho, Randolph Klover, and Kenneth Yang, Asia.com: Asia Encounters the Internet (New York: Routledge, 2003).

8. See the very interesting study by Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey, and Fackson Banda, African Media and the Digital Public Sphere (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

9. Yuqing Xing and Neal Detert, “How the IPhone Widens the United States Trade Deficit with the People’s Republic of China,” ADBI Working Paper no. 257 (December 14, 2010), http://papers.​ssrn.​com/sol3​/papers.​cfm?​abstract_​id = ​1​7​2​9​0​8​5​.​

10. For an excellent article that covers the early stages of China’s recognition of the potential importance of culture and the creative economy as an economic force, see Michael Keane, “Brave New World: Understanding China’s Creative Vision,” International Journal of Cultural Policy 10, no. 3 (2004): 265–279.

11. There are many such accusations. One of the more interesting involved the alleged Chinese hacking of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. See Siobhan Gorman, “China Hackers Hit U.S. Chamber,” Wall Street Journal, December 21, 2011.

12. Stephen C. Smith, “Taiwan: Inside the Miracle: A Development Success Story,” in Case Studies in Economic Development (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1997), 16–27.

13. See the interesting discussion of the significance of the iPad in Sue Halpern, “The iPad Revolution,” New York Times Review of Books, June 10, 2010.

14. For a very interesting set of perspectives on international digital content, see Colette Henry, ed., Entrepreneurship in the Creative Industries: An International Perspective (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2007).

15. The process of regional integration is not new and has a lengthy and convoluted history. In the period before the Internet came to prominence, information technology was already playing a crucial role in drawing the region together. See Nagy Hanna, The East Asian Miracle and Information Technology (Washington, DC: World Bank, 1996).

16. Lily Kong, C. Gibson, L.-M. Knoo, and A.-L. Semple, “Knowledges of the Creative Economy: Towards a Relational Geography of Diffusion and Adaptation in Asia,” Asia Pacific Viewpoint 47, no. 2 (August 2006): 173–194, describes the uneven flow of ideas, policies, and new economy concepts in Asia.