Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China |
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Editor:
| de Kloet, Jeroen Scheen, Lena |
Author:
| Chow, Yiu Fai |
Contribution by:
| Scheen, Lena Kloet, Jeroen Fai, Chow Yiu Wilf, Eitan Coppoolse, Anneke Cuiyan, Wen Peeren, Esther |
Series title: | Asian Visual Cultures Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-94-6298-474-5 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2019 |
Publisher: | Amsterdam University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $138.00 |
Book Description:
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With its emergence as a global power, China aspires to transform from
made in Chinato
created in China. Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and
soft power, creativity has become part of the new China Dream. Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China engages with the imperative of creativity by aligning it to three interrelated phenomena: boredom, shanzhai, and digitisation. How does creativity help mitigate boredom? Does boredom...
More DescriptionWith its emergence as a global power, China aspires to transform from made in Chinato created in China. Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and soft power, creativity has become part of the new China Dream. Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China engages with the imperative of creativity by aligning it to three interrelated phenomena: boredom, shanzhai, and digitisation. How does creativity help mitigate boredom? Does boredom incubate creativity? How do shanzhai practices and the omnipresence of fake goods challenge notions of the original and the authentic? Which spaces for expressions and contestations has China's fast-developing digital world of Weixin, Taobao, Youku, and Internet Plus Policy opened up? Are new technologies serving old interests? Essays, dialogues, audio-visual documents, and field notes, from thinkers, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers, examine what is going on in China now, ultimately to tease out its implication to our understanding of creativity.