Introduction I. Jeroen de Kloet, Yiu Fai Chow, and Lena Scheen We Must Create II. Eitan Wilf 'Creative China' and Its Potential to Problematise Western-modern-romantic Ideologies of Creativity Section 1: Boredom Essays 1.1: Anneke Coppoolse Create No More! Clutter and Boredom, a Hong Kong Prospective 1.2: Wen Cuiyan Combating the Boredom of Traditional Performing Art? The Case of Muk-jyu-go Interlocuting 1.3: Esther Peeren You Must (Not) Be Bored! Boredom and Creativity in Global Capitalism 1.4: Christoph Lindner Boredom and Creativity in the Era of Accelerated Living Notes from the field 1.5: Laura Vermeeren Evaporating Ennui - Water Calligraphy in Beijing 1.6: Li Hao Male Cinderella on the Small Screen in Mainland China In Dialogue 1.7: Yin Shan Lo, Kingsley Ng, and Kung Chi Shing 'Performativity' in the Age of Banality Section 2: Shanzhai Essays 2.1: Anthony Fung and Yiyi Yin New Productive Culture: Shanzhai or Second Degree of Creation? 2.2: Louis Ho Creative 'Shanzhai Labour'? - Leung Mei-ping's 'Made in Hong Kong/Shenzhen' 2.3: Xiao Yuefan Maoism and Disruptive Creativity: Shanzhai - an Alternative Perspective Interlocuting 2.4: Lena Scheen 'Isn't that funny?': The Unsettling Effect of Shanzhai Products 2.5: Stefan Landsberger Shanzhai = Creativity, Creativity = Shanzhai Notes from the field 2.6: Feng Fan Bringing the Chinese Dream to the U.S.A.: A Curatorial Practice in Art Education 2.7: Arjen Nauta 'Banal Creativity': What Does It Mean to be Creative for Hunan TV Practitioners? In Dialogue 2.8: Yin Shan Lo, Dai Dai, and Deng Chunru Two Side of SZ (Shanzhai & Shenzhen) Section 3: Digitisation Essays 3.1: Michael Keane Creativity, Affordances, and Chinese Traditional Culture Interlocuting 3.2: Chen Siyu Digital Payment, Vernacular Creativity, and Governmentality 3.3: Zeng Guohua Shopping 'Natural' and 'Local' Food as Everyday Resistance: Digitisation, Platformisation, and Online Retail of Rural Products Notes from the field 3.4: Liwen Deng Participatory Art On-off a Digital Platform - a Mobius Strip: On Cyber Nails in Curated Nails 3.5: Rowan Perry On-going Digitisation and Independence Chinese Documentary: A Field Report from Beijing 2015-2016 In Dialogue 3.6: Yin Shan Lo, Janet Fong, and Isaac Leung Digitisation with (in/out) Borders Biography of Contributors Endnotes Index