TY - BOOK AU - Lindtner,Silvia M. TI - Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation T2 - Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology SN - 9780691204956 AV - HM846 U1 - 306.4609510905 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Entrepreneurship KW - China KW - Technology KW - Social aspects KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh KW - CCP KW - Chasing Innovation KW - China-US relations KW - Chinese dream KW - Christo Sims KW - Disruptive Fixation KW - Encoding Race KW - Faked in China KW - Fan Yang KW - IT industry KW - Lilly Irani KW - Morgan Ames KW - Sareeta Amrute KW - Silicon Valley KW - The Charisma Machine KW - alternative modernities KW - colonialism KW - computing technology KW - digital technology KW - economization KW - entrepreneurial life KW - entrepreneurship KW - feminist anthropology KW - finance capital KW - financial crisis KW - foreign tech entrepreneurs KW - gender studies KW - gender KW - geopolitics KW - happiness labor KW - human capital KW - incubator programs KW - innovation KW - investment KW - labor exploitation KW - maker movement KW - maker KW - manufacturing KW - modernization KW - neoliberal capitalism KW - political economy KW - precarity KW - race KW - science and technology KW - self-economization KW - tech innovation KW - technological elites KW - technological promise KW - technology industry KW - technology innovation KW - technology KW - the socialist pitch KW - transnational KW - underprivileged workers KW - venture capital system KW - venture capital N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 transform, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to a key asset? Prototype Nation offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise of democratized innovation and entrepreneurial life has shaped China’s governance and global image. With historical precision and ethnographic detail, Silvia Lindtner reveals how a growing distrust in Western models of progress and development, including Silicon Valley and the tech industry after the financial crisis of 2007–08, shaped the rise of the global maker movement and the vision of China as a “new frontier” of innovation.Lindtner’s investigations draw on more than a decade of research in experimental work spaces—makerspaces, coworking spaces, innovation hubs, hackathons, and startup weekends—in China, the United States, Africa, Europe, Taiwan, and Singapore, as well as in key sites of technology investment and industrial production—tech incubators, corporate offices, and factories. She examines how the ideals of the maker movement, to intervene in social and economic structures, served the technopolitical project of prototyping a “new” optimistic, assertive, and global China. In doing so, Lindtner demonstrates that entrepreneurial living influences governance, education, policy, investment, and urban redesign in ways that normalize the endurance of sexism, racism, colonialism, and labor exploitation.Prototype Nation shows that by attending to the bodies and sites that nurture entrepreneurial life, technology can be extricated from the seemingly endless cycle of promise and violence.Cover image: Courtesy of Cao Fei, Vitamin Creative Space and Sprüth Magers UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691204956?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691204956 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691204956/original ER -