This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser chats with Silvia Lindtner of the University of Michigan about her book Prototype Nation. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss how China's maker movement inspired the Party leadership to encourage tech entrepreneurship, how Shenzhen rose to such prominence in technology production, the fetishization of the *shanzhai *movement, and much more.
5:29 How narratives on Chinese tech innovation have shifted
14:10 What made China's technological innovation possible?
20:37 State support for the maker movement and mass innovation
29:52 The technocratic and entrepreneurial mindset of the CCP
38:45 Techno-optimism in China versus the West
45:57 Shenzhen's "hacker paradise" as a transnational project
50:02 Orientalism in the West's fascination with shanzhai, or copycat, culture
A complete transcript of this podcast is available at SupChina.com).
Recommendations
Silvia: In This Moment, We Are Happy by Chen Qiufan) and Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures by Kalindi Vora and Neda Atanasoski)
Kaiser: Sarmat Archery) based in Kiev, Ukraine
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