The business of culture : cultural entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65 / edited by Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland ; foreword by Wang Gungwu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Gungwu, author of introduction, etc.

Contributor:

Rea, Christopher, editor.

Volland, Nicolai, editor.

Series:

Contemporary Chinese studies.

Contemporary Chinese Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural industries--China--Case studies.

Cultural industries.

Cultural industries--Southeast Asia--Case studies.

Businesspeople--China--Case studies.

Businesspeople.

China--Economic conditions--20th century--Case studies.

China.

Southeast Asia--Economic conditions--20th century--Case studies.

Southeast Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver, British Columbia : UBC Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century, changing technologies and growing transregional ties provided unprecedented opportunities for the entrepreneurially minded in China and Southeast Asia. The Business of Culture examines the rise of Chinese "cultural entrepreneurs," businesspeople who risked financial well-being and reputation by investing in multiple cultural enterprises in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rich in biographical detail, the interlinked case studies featured in this volume introduce three distinct archetypes: the cultural personality, the tycoon, and the collective enterprise. These portraits reveal how changes in social and economic conditions created the fertile soil for business success; conditions that are similar to those emerging in China today.

Contents:

Enter the Cultural Entrepreneur / Christopher Rea

PART 1: CULTURAL PERSONALITIES. Between the Literata and the New Woman: Lü Bicheng as Cultural Entrepreneur / Grace Fong

The Butterfly Mark: Chen Diexian, His Brand, and Cultural Entrepreneurism in Republican China / Eugenia Lean

Culture by Post: Correspondence Schools in Early Republican China / Michael Gibbs Hill

PART 2: TYCOONS. Aw Boon Haw, the Tiger from Nanyang: Social Entrepreneurship, Transregional Journalism, and Public Culture / Sin Yee Theng and Nicolai Volland

One Chicken, Three Dishes: The Cultural Enterprises of Law Bun / Sai-Shing Yung and Christopher Rea

PART 3: COLLECTIVE ENTERPRISES. Local Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks: Publishing Markets and Cantonese Communities within and across National Borders / Robert Culp

Cultural Consumption and Cosmopolitan Connections: Chinese Cinema Entrepreneurs in 1920's and 1930's Singapore / Chua Ai Lin

Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Twilight: The Shanghai Book Trade Association, 1945-57 / Nicolai Volland

Epilogue: Beyond the Age of Cultural Entrepreneurship, 1949-Present / Christopher A. Reed and Nicolai Volland

Glossary.

Notes:

Co-published by: Hong Kong University Press.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 22, 2014).

ISBN:

0-7748-2782-3

OCLC:

898085980