Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China

With its emergence as a global power, China aspires to transform from "made in China" to "created in China". Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and "soft power," creativity has become part of the new China Dream. This anthology engages with the imperative of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: de Kloet, Jeroen (Editor ), Chow, Yiu Fai, editor (editor), Scheen, Lena, editor, de Kloet, Jeroen, editor
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2019
Amsterdam : [2019]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Asian Visual Cultures
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Sumario:With its emergence as a global power, China aspires to transform from "made in China" to "created in China". Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and "soft power," creativity has become part of the new China Dream. This anthology 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 stuffs challenge notions of the original and 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, contribute to explore, examine and problematize what is going on in China now, ultimately to tease out its implication to our understanding of "creativity".
Descripción Física:1 online resource (289)
ISBN:9789048535538