created in china: the great new leap forward
one of my supervisors, michael keane, has published a new book recently.
it’s called created in china: the great new leap forward.
i must admit that i haven’t read the book yet. however, as a student, colleague, and respectful fan of michael and his work, i have no doubt this book will masterfully guide us through the mysterious and massive land of contemporary chinese culture and industries relative to the idea of creativity, something many of us are still finding hard to even draw a rough sketch of in our heads.
i urge you to grab a copy.
i thank him for his wonderful contribution to our knowledge, and he clearly thanks upstairs for his great talent and smarts ;)
October 13th, 2007 at 4:24 am
But what about your book, Jaz? :-) I was just writing in my diary (that’s an old media form, a sort of proto-blog with no comments switched on) about Korea and realized that, while I know how to get as many Korean techno-statistics and pop-culture artefacts as I might want, I don’t yet know where to find the intellectuals. I’m not even sure what I’m after… some digital Jean-Paul Sartre, maybe, someone from the 386 generation who’s now writing about the contemporary scene, about facelifts and stem cells… If that rather woolly description brings anyone to mind, please let me know. :-)
The library here has 2 copies of Michael’s book on order, I guess they’ll show up soon.
October 30th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Hi Mitchell.
Fnding more about old(er) thinkers and linking their ideas with what’s happening now in Korea is something that I am trying to do (to a certain extent), as I don’t think there’s too much done in that domain. I’ll have to think more about it, and in the mean time you could let me know what specific area/s you’re interested in, but I know that myoung-hye kim has written some great stuff about technology and korean women - not sure about stem cells w/ her though :)