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positions (2022) 30 (4): 895–921.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Hans Steinmüller Abstract The Wa State of Myanmar is often called “shanzhai China,” that is, a lesser imitation of China. This essay unpacks the material and symbolic implications of creative imitation at the Chinese periphery, embodied in shanzhai 山寨 practices. Literally “mountain fortress...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 589–619.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Fan Yang This article examines three significant moments of the shanzhai discourse in WTO-era China. Literally referring to a “mountain fortress” occupied by antiofficial bandits, shanzhai is a new term for wide-ranging knockoff products and copycat media forms. Often invoking Robin-Hood-like...
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positions (2016) 24 (3): 585–587.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Tani Barlow Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Editor’s Introduction Our lead article takes readers to “WTO-­era China.” Fan Yang’s “From Bandit Cell Phones to Branding the Nation: Three Moments of Shanzhai in WTO-­era...
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positions (2022) 30 (4): 645–652.
Published: 01 November 2022
... offers a tool for the reconstitution of surveilled voices into a “counter-public sphere” or “oppositional community” (Felski 1989 : 168) through its shared articulation of oppression, harassment, and fear. Hans Steinmüller's “Shanzhai: Creative Imitation of China in Highland Myanmar” looks at the Wa...
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positions (2016) 24 (2): 343–368.
Published: 01 May 2016
... to fold in the social and cultural domains. Thus shanzhai, a Chinese term that once referred to the moun- tain bastions of rebellious local warlords, now denotes a culture of copy: not only counterfeit goods but also social wannabes and all...
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positions (2023) 31 (3): 677–708.
Published: 01 August 2023
... . Kloet Jeroen de , Chow Yiu Fai , and Scheen Lena , eds. 2019 . Boredom, Shanzhai, and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press . Landsberger Stefan . 2018 . “ China Dreaming: Representing the Perfect Present, Anticipating the Rosy...
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positions (2016) 24 (4): 789–812.
Published: 01 November 2016
... themselves against “the uniform dress and look of thousands” once held dear to the elite and the official. Shanzhai, or copycat, is the hallmark of China’s lower class and the cultural currency they use to build a community where the expansion of time...