Prototype nation : China and the contested promise of innovation / Silvia M. Lindtner.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Lindtner, Silvia M., author.

Series:

• Princeton studies in culture and technology.
• Princeton scholarship online.
• Princeton studies in culture and technology
• Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Technological innovations--China.
• Industrial productivity--China.
• China--Foreign economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 280 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

• 2020.
• Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Summary:

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? This book offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China's governance and global image. The book reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007-8, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a 'new frontier' of innovation. The book draws on research in experimental work spaces in China, the United States, Africa, Europe, Taiwan, and Singapore, as well as in key sites of technology investment and industrial production.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• 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
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2021).
• Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

• 9780691204956
• 0691204950

OCLC:

1238025694