"While China has been rising as an innovative platform society and AI powerhouse, this book addresses the broader question of a shifting world order and trends that are shaped by China's influence but extend beyond its borders"--.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: New, Old, and Uncertain Futures
• Analyzing Chinese Platform Power: Infrastructure, Finance, and Geopolitics, Lianrui Jia and David Nieborg
• Neoliberal Business-as-Usual or Post-Surveillance Capitalism with European Characteristics? The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation in a Multipolar Internet, Angela Daly
• The Global versus the National: Creativity in Turkey’s Game Industry, Serra Sezgin and Mutlu Binark
• Making, New Shanzhai, and Countercultural Values: Ethnographies of Contemporary, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial Digital Fabrication Communities in Shenzhen, China, Daniel H. Mutibwa and Bingqing Xia
• Platformization of the Unlikely Creative Class: Kuaishou and Chinese Digital Cultural Production, Jian Lin and Jeroen de Kloet
• Technology Translations between China and Ghana: The Case of Low-End Phone Design, Miao Lu
• The Necropolitics of Innovation: Sensing Death in the Mediterranean Sea, Monika Halkort
• Conclusion: Futures in the Plural, Jack Linchuan Qiu
• Contributors