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

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

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

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Yes, you can access Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China by Jeroen Kloet,Yiu Fai Chow,Lena Scheen,Jeroen de Kloet in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Product Design. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9789048535538
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Product Design
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. I. Introduction
  5. II. ‘Creative China’ and Its Potential to Problematise Western-Modern-Romantic Ideologies of Creativity
  6. Section 1: Boredom
  7. Essays
  8. 1.1 Create No More!
  9. 1.2 Combating the Boredom of Traditional Performing Arts?
  10. 1.3 You Must (Not) Be Bored!
  11. 1.4 Boredom and Creativity in the Era of Accelerated Living
  12. Notes from the Field
  13. 1.5 Evaporating Ennui
  14. 1.6 Male Cinderella on the Small Screen in mainland China
  15. In Dialogue
  16. 1.7 ‘Performativity’ in the Age of Banality
  17. Section 2: Shanzhai
  18. Essays
  19. 2.1 New Productive Culture
  20. 2.2 Creative ‘Shanzhai Labour’?
  21. 2.3 Maoism and Disruptive Creativity
  22. Interlocuting
  23. 2.4 ‘Isn’t that funny?’
  24. 2.5 Shanzhai = Creativity, Creativity = Shanzhai
  25. Notes from the Field
  26. 2.6 Bringing the Chinese Dream to the U.S.
  27. 2.7 ‘Banal Creativity’
  28. In Dialogue
  29. 2.8 Two sides of SZ (Shanzhai & Shenzhen)
  30. Section 3: Digitisation
  31. Essay
  32. 3.1 Creativity, Affordances, and Chinese Traditional Culture
  33. Interlocuting
  34. 3.2 Digital Payment, Vernacular Creativity, and Governmentality
  35. 3.3 Shopping ‘Natural’ and ‘Local’ food as Everyday Resistance
  36. Notes from the Field
  37. 3.4 Participatory Art On-off a Digital Platform
  38. 3.5 Ongoing Digitisation and Independent Chinese Documentary
  39. In Dialogue
  40. 3.6 Digitisation with (in/out) Borders
  41. Index
  42. List of Illustrations