Chinaβs AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur Rest of World By: Lin Zhang 7 July 2026 at 11:00 Involution β neijuan (ε ε·) in Mandarin, literally βinward curlingβ β entered everyday Chinese speech around 2020. The concept was borrowed from the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz, who described a pattern... Β© Rest of World/iStock