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Publication Date
2017-10-06
Pages
104
ISBN
9780262534369

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262534363
ISBN-13
9780262534369
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234301839

Product Key Features

Book Title
Shanzhai : Deconstruction in Chinese
Number of Pages
104 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Criticism & Theory, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Philosophy, Psychology
Author
Byung-Chul Han
Book Series
Untimely Meditations Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.3 in
Item Weight
4 Oz
Item Length
6.9 in
Item Width
4.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-010721
Dewey Edition
23
Series Volume Number
8
Dewey Decimal
306.4
Synopsis
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 cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians, shanzhai stars. There is a shanzhai Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll , in which Harry takes on his nemesis Yandomort. In the West, this would be seen as piracy, or even desecration, but in Chinese culture, originals are continually transformed--deconstructed. In this volume in the Untimely Meditations series, Byung-Chul Han traces the thread of deconstruction, or "decreation," in Chinese thought, from ancient masterpieces that invite inscription and transcription to Maoism--"a kind a shanzhai Marxism," Han writes. Han discusses the Chinese concepts of quan, or law, which literally means the weight that slides back and forth on a scale, radically different from Western notions of absoluteness; zhen ji , or original, determined not by an act of creation but by unending process; xian zhan , or seals of leisure, affixed by collectors and part of the picture's composition; fuzhi , or copy, a replica of equal value to the original; and shanzhai . The Far East, Han writes, is not familiar with such "pre-deconstructive" factors as original or identity. Far Eastern thought begins with deconstruction., 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 cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians, shanzhai stars. There is a shanzhai Harry Potter- Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll , in which Harry takes on his nemesis Yandomort. In the West, this would be seen as piracy, or even desecration, but in Chinese culture, originals are continually transformed-deconstructed. In this volume in the Untimely Meditations series, Byung-Chul Han traces the thread of deconstruction, or "decreation," in Chinese thought, from ancient masterpieces that invite inscription and transcription to Maoism-"a kind a shanzhai Marxism," Han writes. Han discusses the Chinese concepts of quan, or law, which literally means the weight that slides back and forth on a scale, radically different from Western notions of absoluteness; zhen ji , or original, determined not by an act of creation but by unending process; xian zhan , or seals of leisure, affixed by collectors and part of the picture's composition; fuzhi , or copy, a replica of equal value to the original; and shanzhai . The Far East, Han writes, is not familiar with such "pre-deconstructive" factors as original or identity. Far Eastern thought begins with deconstruction.
LC Classification Number
BH301.O75H3613 2017

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