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. Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China engages with th...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1685362025-10-24T05:16:04Z Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China Kloet, Jeroen Chow, Yiu Fai Scheen, Lena creativity thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AK Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics 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. Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China engages with the imperative of creativity by aligning it to three interrelated phenomena: boredom, shanzhai, and digitisation. How does creativity help mitigate boredom? Does boredom incubate creativity? How do shanzhai practices and the omnipresence of fake goods challenge notions of the original and the authentic? Which spaces for expressions and contestations has China's fast-developing digital world of Weixin, Taobao, Youku, and Internet Plus Policy opened up? Are new technologies serving old interests? Essays, dialogues, audio-visual documents, and field notes, from thinkers, researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers, examine what is going on in China now, ultimately to tease out its implication to our understanding of creativity. 2025-10-24T05:16:02Z 2025-10-24T05:16:02Z 2025-10-23T08:30:33Z 2025 book ONIX_20251023T102741_9781040775929_2 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107805 9781040775929 9781041176350 9781003691839 9789462984745 9781040787250 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168536 eng Asian Visual Cultures open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107805/1/9781040775929.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.5117/9789462984745 10.5117/9789462984745 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040775929 9781041176350 9781003691839 9789462984745 9781040787250 Routledge 320 Oxford open access
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Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China
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