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A short infrastructural history of currency digitalization in the People’s Republic of China, 2000s-2020s

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This chapter offers a concise overview of China's endeavors towards establishing a state-backed digital currency from the early 2000s to the present, culminating in the digital yuan. Drawing on the social scientific literature concerned with large technical systems, we assert two main arguments. First of all, while many commentators have considered that the new payment infrastructure could overhaul the existing institutional arrangements in the realm of payments and in particular weaken private financial entities, its evolution actually follows a much more incremental logic and relies on both private and public institutions. Secondly, many foreign observers have assumed that the digital yuan represents a long-planned attempt at challenging the international currency hierarchy and American international hegemony. Contrary to this line of thinking, we argue that initially, currency digitalization in the PRC was first and foremost motivated by domestic factors. The project assumed an openly international dimension only after other foreign countries began to initiate their own attempts at currency digitalization under the new slogan of developing "Central Bank Digital Currencies".

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  • Salzer, Tim, 2024. "A short infrastructural history of currency digitalization in the People’s Republic of China, 2000s-2020s," SocArXiv 5yq4r_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:5yq4r_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/5yq4r_v1
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