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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Asian Visual Cultures ;
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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