Prototype Nation : China and the Contested Promise of Innovation /

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A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "copycat" production transform, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to a key asset? Prototype Nation offers a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindtner, Silvia M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology ; 29
Temas:
Entrepreneurship > China.
Technology > Social aspects > China.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
CCP.
Chasing Innovation.
China-US relations.
China.
Chinese dream.
Christo Sims.
Disruptive Fixation.
Encoding Race.
Faked in China.
Fan Yang.
IT industry.
Lilly Irani.
Morgan Ames.
Sareeta Amrute.
Silicon Valley.
The Charisma Machine.
alternative modernities.
colonialism.
computing technology.
digital technology.
economization.
entrepreneurial life.
entrepreneurship.
feminist anthropology.
finance capital.
financial crisis.
foreign tech entrepreneurs.
gender studies.
gender.
geopolitics.
happiness labor.
human capital.
incubator programs.
innovation.
investment.
labor exploitation.
maker movement.
maker.
manufacturing.
modernization.
neoliberal capitalism.
political economy.
precarity.
race.
science and technology.
self-economization.
tech innovation.
technological elites.
technological promise.
technology industry.
technology innovation.
technology.
the socialist pitch.
transnational.
underprivileged workers.
venture capital system.
venture capital.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: The Promise of Making
  • 2. Prototype Citizen: Colonial Durabilities in Technology Innovation
  • 3. Inventing Shenzhen: How the Copy Became the Prototype, or: How China Out-Wested the West and Saved Modernity
  • 4. Incubating Human Capital: Market Devices of Finance Capitalism
  • 5. Seeing Like a Peer: Happiness Labor and the Microworld of Innovation
  • 6. China's Entrepreneurial Factory: The Violence of Happiness
  • 7. Conclusion: The Nurture of Entrepreneurial Life
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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