With its emergence as a global power China aspires to transform from made in China to created in China. Mobilised as a crucial source for solid growth and soft power creativity has become part of the new China Dream. Boredom Shanzhai and Digitisation in the Time of Creative China engages with the imperative of creativity by aligning it to three interrelated phenomena boredom shanzhai and digitisation. How does creativity help mitigate boredom Does boredom incubate creativity How do shanzhai prac