Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese by Byung-Chul Han

Shanzhai: Deconstruction in Chinese

Byung-Chul Han with Philippa Hurd (Translator)

104 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy informative reflective slow-paced
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Tracing the thread of "decreation" in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original.Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off...

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