This title investigates China's network society, both its online cyber society and offline real world society, by analyzing the trends and social foundations of society as network and the social challenges it poses, as well as structural changes in social space and social interaction.

Liu Shaojie is a professor at the Research Center for Sociological Theory and Methods of Renmin University of China and a chair professor at Anhui University, China. His main research fields include network sociology, theoretical sociology, and economic sociology.

Part I: Realistic Foundation of Chinese Network Society 1. Development Process of Chinese Network Society 2. Practical Nature and Perceptual Order of Network Society 3. Transactions in Network Economy 4. Power Restructuring in Network Society 5. Network-based Social Governance Part II: Spatial Change of Chinese Network Society 6. From Urban Space Theory to Network Space Theory 7. Network Space of Absence and Presence 8. Unprecedentedly Active Absence Interaction 9. The Rise in Status of Mediated Experience 10. Spatial Representation of Network Society 11. Social Identity of Network Aggregation