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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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Otros Autores: Chow, Yiu Fai (Editor ), Chunru, Deng (Contribuidor), Coppoolse, Anneke (Contribuidor), Cuiyan, Wen (Contribuidor), Dai, Dai (Contribuidor), Deng, Zoénie Liwen (Contribuidor), Fai, Chow Yiu (Contribuidor), Fan, Feng (Contribuidor), Fong, Janet (Contribuidor), Fung, Anthony (Contribuidor), Guohua, Zeng (Contribuidor), Hao, Li (Contribuidor), Ho, Louis (Contribuidor), Keane, Michael (Contribuidor), Kloet, Jeroen de (Contribuidor), Kloet, Jeroen (Editor ), Landsberger, Stefan (Contribuidor), Leung, Isaac (Contribuidor), Lindner, Christoph (Contribuidor), Nauta, Arjen (Contribuidor), Ng, Kingsley (Contribuidor), Parry, Rowan (Contribuidor), Peeren, Esther (Contribuidor), Scheen, Lena (Contribuidor, Editor ), Shan, Lo Yin (Contribuidor), Shing, Kung Chi (Contribuidor), Siyu, Chen (Contribuidor), Vermeeren, Laura (Contribuidor), Wilf, Eitan (Contribuidor), Yin, Yiyi (Contribuidor), Yuefan, Xiao (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]
Colección:Asian Visual Cultures ; 4
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  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. Introduction: We Must Create?
  • II. 'Creative China' and Its Potential to Problematise Western- Modern-Romantic Ideologies of Creativity
  • Section 1: Boredom
  • Essays
  • 1.1 Create No More! Clutter and Boredom, a Hong Kong Perspective
  • 1.2 Combating the Boredom of Traditional Performing Arts? The Case of Muyuge
  • Interlocuting
  • 1.3 You Must (Not) Be Bored! Boredom and Creativity in Global Capitalism
  • 1.4 Boredom and Creativity in the Era of Accelerated Living
  • Notes from the Field
  • 1.5 Evaporating Ennui Water Calligraphy in Beijing
  • 1.6 Male Cinderella on the Small Screen in mainland China
  • In Dialogue
  • 1.7 'Performativity' in the Age of Banality
  • Section 2: Shanzhai
  • Essays
  • 2.1 New Productive Culture Shanzhai or Second Degree of Creation?
  • 2.2 Creative 'Shanzhai Labour'? Leung Mee-ping's 'Made in Hong Kong/Shenzhen'
  • 2.3 Maoism and Disruptive Creativity Shanzhai - an Alternative Perspective
  • Interlocuting
  • 2.4 'Isn't that funny?' The Unsettling Effect of Shanzhai Products
  • 2.5 Shanzhai = Creativity, Creativity = Shanzhai
  • Notes from the Field
  • 2.6 Bringing the Chinese Dream to the U.S. A Curatorial Practice in Art Education
  • 2.7 'Banal Creativity' What Does It Mean to Be Creative for Hunan TV Practitioners?
  • In Dialogue
  • 2.8 Two sides of SZ (Shanzhai & Shenzhen)
  • Section 3: Digitisation
  • Essay
  • 3.1 Creativity, Affordances, and Chinese Traditional Culture
  • Interlocuting
  • 3.2 Digital Payment, Vernacular Creativity, and Governmentality
  • 3.3 Shopping 'Natural' and 'Local' food as Everyday Resistance Digitisation, Platformisation, and Online Retail of Rural Products
  • Notes from the Field
  • 3.4 Participatory Art On-off a Digital Platform A Mobius Strip: On Cyber Nails in Curated Nails
  • 3.5 Ongoing Digitisation and Independent Chinese Documentary A Field Report from Beijing 2015-2016
  • In Dialogue
  • 3.6 Digitisation with (in/out) Borders
  • Index