Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Acknowledgments 11
4. I. Introduction: We Must Create? 13
5. II. ‘Creative China’ and Its Potential to Problematise Western- Modern-Romantic Ideologies of Creativity 39
6. Section 1: Boredom
7. Essays
8. 1.1 Create No More! Clutter and Boredom, a Hong Kong Perspective 53
9. 1.2 Combating the Boredom of Traditional Performing Arts? The Case of Muyuge 77
10. Interlocuting
11. 1.3 You Must (Not) Be Bored! Boredom and Creativity in Global Capitalism 101
12. 1.4 Boredom and Creativity in the Era of Accelerated Living 110
13. Notes from the Field
14. 1.5 Evaporating Ennui Water Calligraphy in Beijing 121
15. 1.6 Male Cinderella on the Small Screen in mainland China 132
16. In Dialogue
17. 1.7 ‘Performativity’ in the Age of Banality 139
18. Section 2: Shanzhai
19. Essays
20. 2.1 New Productive Culture Shanzhai or Second Degree of Creation? 149
21. 2.2 Creative ‘Shanzhai Labour’? Leung Mee-ping’s ‘Made in Hong Kong/Shenzhen’ 171
22. 2.3 Maoism and Disruptive Creativity Shanzhai – an Alternative Perspective 186
23. Interlocuting
24. 2.4 ‘Isn’t that funny?’ The Unsettling Effect of Shanzhai Products 211
25. 2.5 Shanzhai = Creativity, Creativity = Shanzhai 217
26. Notes from the Field
27. 2.6 Bringing the Chinese Dream to the U.S. A Curatorial Practice in Art Education 225
28. 2.7 ‘Banal Creativity’ What Does It Mean to Be Creative for Hunan TV Practitioners? 235
29. In Dialogue
30. 2.8 Two sides of SZ (Shanzhai & Shenzhen) 243
31. Section 3: Digitisation
32. Essay
33. 3.1 Creativity, Affordances, and Chinese Traditional Culture 255
34. Interlocuting
35. 3.2 Digital Payment, Vernacular Creativity, and Governmentality 275
36. 3.3 Shopping ‘Natural’ and ‘Local’ food as Everyday Resistance Digitisation, Platformisation, and Online Retail of Rural Products 283
37. Notes from the Field
38. 3.4 Participatory Art On-off a Digital Platform A Mobius Strip: On Cyber Nails in Curated Nails 291
39. 3.5 Ongoing Digitisation and Independent Chinese Documentary A Field Report from Beijing 2015-2016 299
40. In Dialogue
41. 3.6 Digitisation with (in/out) Borders 307
42. Index 315