As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work,
but also to “see the world” and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant …

Since the 1980s there has been extraordinary growth and visibility of design throughout
most of the world. This is connected to fundamental developments in capitalism. This period …

Faked in China is a critical account of the cultural challenge faced by China following its
accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. It traces the interactions between nation …

We draw from long-term research in Shenzhen, a manufacturing hub in the South of China,
to critically examine the role of participation in the contemporary discourse around maker …

1. Between January 8 and February 21, 1992, China's then-paramount leader, Deng
Xiaoping, embarked on a tour of cities in southern and southeastern China, where he gave …

This paper questions the binary of material and immaterial labour in the information era.
Instead, we propose a “circuits of labour” model, a holistic framework that helps connect …

From open source cultures, piracy, to amateur media and on-demand labour, informal media
activities are vibrant in circuits of cultural production, distribution, consumption and labour …

This article focuses on the broad spread of shanzhai culture in 2008, exploring the central
question: what is it that brings such disparate phenomena together under one label …

Preface: Mobile Phone Balloons viii Preface the film Cars or Ariel from The Little Mermaid is
popular one year, that type of balloon gets into the mix. From the perspective of the person …

After its global popularity and commercial success, Genshin Impact, a Chinese-developed,
Japanese anime-style mobile game, provokes online discussions on whether such a game …