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Title Boredom, shanzhai, and digitization in the time of creative China / edited by Jeroen de Kloet, Chow Yiu Fai, and Lena Scheen.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource.
data file rda
Series Asian visual cultures
Asian visual cultures.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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".
Note Print version record.
Subject Creative ability -- China.
Boredom -- China.
Technological innovations -- China.
Added Author Kloet, Jeroen de, editor.
Chow, Yiu Fai, editor.
Scheen, Lena, editor.
Other Form: Print version: BOREDOM, SHANZHAI, AND DIGITIZATION IN THE TIME OF CREATIVE CHINA. AMSTERDAM : AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PR, 2019 9462984743 (OCoLC)1103467664
ISBN 9789048535538 (electronic book)
9048535530 (electronic book)
9462984743
9789462984745
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