Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction: We Must Create? -- II. 'Creative China' and Its Potential to Problematise Western- Modern-Romantic Ideologies of Creativity -- 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 -- 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 &amp -- amp -- Shenzhen) -- 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.

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