This chapter explores the contemporary Chinese architectural mimicry phenomenon with its spatial and temporal dynamics embedded in “copying from the West” and “copying from the past.” Chinese copying with its rich tradition is now receiving biased judgment grounded in the dominant modern Western ideologies of “authenticity” and “originality.” However, this chapter argues “authenticity” and “originality” are cultural constructions or invented traditions. Two case studies of recent Chinese architectural mimicry, Jackson Hole and W-town in Beijing, bring us to the formation processes of core cultural values and contemporary Chinese identity, which are embedded in the collisions between the mimesis tradition and creativity and between Western influences and its reciprocation under a Chinese context in the contemporary media-driven moment. Multiple temporalities have been created through copying and thus challenge a linear historical narrative. The chapter ultimately questions how Chinese copycat environments interrogate the “hegemony of modern preservation theories and practices” to further examine the notion of “modernity” in its general sense.