The pervasive adoption of new technology in communication by Chinese people all over the world can be viewed from the following three perspectives: technology as cultural practice, technology as cultural change, and technology as cultural adaptation. Communication technology has the potential to both reinforce and alter their traditional values. It may also be used to make their adaptation to a new environment smooth. While culture is viewed as a driving force behind the adoption of technology in the first perspective, cultural change becomes the consequence of technology in the second. In the third perspective, cultural values are sustained, and cultural identities are negotiated, through the utilization of technology. How culture and technology are interfaced in Chinese communication is contingent upon the meaning assigned to technology by Chinese people in a given social and historical context.