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Bianca Bosker

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Bianca Bosker is an award-winning journalist and the author of Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China (University Of Hawai’i Press, 2013). She is currently the Executive Tech Editor of The Huffington Post where, in 2009, she co-launched the tech section. As a columnist and feature-writer focusing on social media, artificial intelligence and the intersection of tech and culture, she has explored technology’s role in creating a faking-it-big world where people fall in love with video games, and Twitter celebrities turn out to be mere chatbots. Bosker is also the co-author of Bowled Over: A Roll Down Memory Lane (Chronicle Books, 2002).

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Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge

Text and photographs by Bianca Bosker