Prototype nation : China and the contested promise of innovation /

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 become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototy...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lindtner, Silvia M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020.
Colección:Princeton studies in culture and technology.
Temas:
Industrial productivity > China.
Technological innovations > China.
Productivité > Chine.
Innovations > Chine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Industrial productivity
International economic relations
Technological innovations
China > Foreign economic relations.
China
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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