ABSTRACT
This chapter explores in greater detail how China’s performative governance influences individual entrepreneurial talents. Drawing on the auto-ethnography of the author participating in one entrepreneurship competition as an entrepreneur and the experiences afterwards, this chapter vividly describes the process of how transnational talents are entrepreneured by the state performative governing strategies. I further argue that the state-endorsed entrepreneurial talents, those competition winners, are not necessarily recognised by market actors such as venture capitalists as having the potential to succeed in business. Two contradictory standards of entrepreneurial talent selection lead to precarious experience for entrepreneurs.
