China Deng Fei’s “Free Lunch”: Experience Economy and Connective Politics

Haiqing Yu

Chapter 7 in Digital Enablement and Innovation in China:A Casebook, 2019, pp 45-53 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This case examines the role of social media in the rise of micro-philanthropy and grassroots associations in China, with a focus on Deng Fei’s “Free Lunch (for School Kids)” initiative. In particular, it discusses how Deng and his team enact rather than articulate what they believe in; it also investigates why enact-ivism, rather than activism, is embodied by micro-philanthropists through experience economy.

Keywords: Digital Enablement; Digital Transformation; Innovation in China; Technological Disruption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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