Shenzhen

Clément Renaud / http://clementrenaud.com

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# Shenzhen

## Global Entanglements in Digital Territories

##  Clément Renaud
October, 16 2023

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![](/books/realtime/img/REALTIME_cover.jpeg)

## realtimechina.net

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# Shenzhen

What do you know about it ?
Why study Shenzhen ?

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A trade port in Guangdong at the end of the 19th Century -  source: [Wright, Arnold (1908)](https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00wriguoft)
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## The Pearl River Delta

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# Part 1: Planning the SEZ

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# The Cultural Revolution
## (1966-1976)

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# 经济特区

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## The Special Economic Zone

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## The Third Front

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## The Engineering Corps (1980)

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  source:  Zhou, 2021
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## The Rise of Consumer Electronics

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## The Shangbu District (1985)

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# 打工妹

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image: Shenzhen News, 1987
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# Part 2 : The Dream of the Red Engineers

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# Urban villages

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  source:  O'Donnell, 2021
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# Longhua Industrial District

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Home of Foxconn/Hon Hai Longhua plant. Incorporated in the SEZ in 2010
.small[(Zou, 2014)]
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## Shenzhen Master Plan (1996)

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# "We should dare to experiment and break a new path. That is the important lesson to be learned from Shenzhen."

[Deng Xiaoping](https://dengxiaopingworks.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/excerpts-from-talks-given-in-wuchang-shenzhen-zhuhai-and-shanghai/) - Jan 20, 1992 in Shenzhen during the Southern Tour

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[![](../shenzhen-the-making-of-technology/img/DXP_nanxun.jpg)](http://www.china.org.cn/china/CPC_90_anniversary/2011-04/19/content_22392494.htm)
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# 红色工程师

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  1994- 江泽民同志视察天津大学
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# The 90s "Whitebox" Computers
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# DIY computers
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# Modularization of technology
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# Learning from scratch
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# Industrial boom

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# Huaqiangbei

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# Huaqiangbei

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# ☆ AAA货 ☆
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## [SHANZHAI ARCHEOLOGY](http://disnovation.org/shanzhai.html) by DISNOVATION.ORG
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Accra, Ghana (2015)
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    source: [Quartz Africa](https://qz.com/411330/the-mystery-of-the-power-bank-phone-taking-over-ghana/)  
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# Part 3: Going Global

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## Shenzhen Master Plan (2010)

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## The Huawei campus in Longhua, Shenzhen
source: The Atlantic
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.footnote.small[Source : Vice]

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2017 Chinese New Year TV show featuring a ballet of robots by Shenzhen company *UBTech*  
dancing with the famous singer Sun Nan - source: CCTV
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# New industries

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# "Climb up the food chain"
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  SMIC chip foundry in Shenzhen
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.footnote[ source : [Harvard RE-FORM project](https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/project/re-form-towards-human-scale-urbanism-in-china/)]

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### Work started Jan. 29...

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source : [Eye Shenzhen - Massive flyover dismantled at Shenzhen Speed ](http://www.eyeshenzhen.com/content/2019-02/13/content_21404674.htm)
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.footnote[ source : [Harvard RE-FORM project](https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/project/re-form-towards-human-scale-urbanism-in-china/)]

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China city in Johannesburg - source: Quartz
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# ...and in the cyberspace

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# Thank you all for your attention
## Questions ?

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### @clemsos