Prototype Nation: China and the Contested Promise of Innovation

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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 become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a rich transnational analysis of how the promise

Silvia M. Lindtner is associate professor of information at the University of Michigan. She is the cofounder of Hacked Matter and associate director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC). Twitter @yunnia

"Winner of the Francis L.K. Hsu Book Prize, Society for East Asian Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association" "Winner of the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies" "Prototype Nation is an interesting, informative reading, fulfilling its self-declared goals of contributing to critical theory a detailed, richly documented analysis of the struggles, violences, and alternative narratives Lindtner's informants negotiated in prototyping themselves and supporting the prototyping of others."---Juan M. del Nido, Anthropos Journal