Handbook of cultural and creative industries in China / [edited by] Michael Keane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keane, Michael, 1952-

Edward Elgar Publishing.

Series:

Handbooks of research on contemporary China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural industries--China.

Cultural industries.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (576 pages) ; cm.

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, c. 2016.

Summary:

China is at the crux of reforming, professionalizing, and internationalizing its cultural and creative industries. These industries are at the forefront of China's move towards the status of a developed country. In this comprehensive Handbook, international experts including leading Mainland scholars examine the background to China's cultural and creative industries as well as the challenges ahead. The chapters represent the cutting-edge of scholarship, setting out the future directions of culture, creativity and innovation in China. Combining interdisciplinary approaches with contemporary social and economic theory, the contributors examine developments in art, cultural tourism, urbanism, digital media, e-commerce, fashion and architectural design, publishing, film, television, animation, documentary, music and festivals. Students of Chinese culture and society will find this Handbook to be an invaluable resource. Scholars working on topics related to China's emergence and its cultural aspirations will also find the themes discussed in this book to be of interest.

Contents:

Foreword / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

1. Introduction / Michael Keane

Part I The cultural and creative industries reconsidered

2. Doing Chinese cultural industries: a reflection on the blue-book syndrome and remedy paradigm / Zitong Qiu

3. The ten thousand things, the Chinese dream and the creative-cultural industries / Michael Keane

4. The makers are coming: China's long tail revolution / Jing Wang

5. Balinghou and Qilinghou: generational difference and creativity in China / Bjarke Liboriussen

6. The artyficial paradise: municipal face-work in a Chinese boomtown / Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne

Part II

Advice to government, ideology and future challenges facing the cultural industries in China

7. Editor's introduction / Michael Keane

8. The cultural industries in China: a historical overview / Xiaoming Zhang

9. The challenges of China's culture 'going to the world' / Wuwei Li

10. Chinese culture 'going out': an overview of government policies and an analysis of challenges and opportunities for international collaboration / Huailiang Li

11. Ethnic cultural industries and the 'one place, one product strategy' / Na Yi

12. Globalization and ethnic grounded cultural creativity in Yunnan / Yan Li and Ying Huang

13. Cultural organizations in China: creating digital platforms for success / Marina Guo

Part III Traditional cultural and creative industry sectors in flux

14. Editor's introduction / Michael Keane

15. The cultural governance of mass media in contemporary China / Florian Schneider

16. The regionalization of co-production in the film industries of Hong Kong SAR and mainland China / Peichi Chung and Lianyuan Yi

17. Chinese transnational cinema and the collaborative tilt toward South Korea / Brian Yecies

18. Chinese documentary: towards commercialization / Yingchi Chu

19. The urban-rural divide in China's cultural industries: the case of Chinese radio / Wei Lei, Lauren Gorfinkel and Wanning Sun

20. Animation industries in China: managed creativity or state discourse? / Anthony Y-H Fung and Vicky Ho

21. From 'Nothing to My Name' to 'I am a Singer': market, capital, and politics in the Chinese music industry / Qian Wang and Jeroen De Kloet

22. China's self-help industry: American(ized) life advice in China / Eric C. Hendriks

Part IV Assessing digital lives, constructing creative futures

23. Editor's introduction / Michael Keane

24. Copyright in China's cultural industries / Lucy Montgomery and Eric Priest

25. Commercial and digital transformation of Chinese television / Ruoyun Bai

26. Between sustaining and disruptive innovation: China's digital publishing industry in the age of mobile internet / Xiang Ren

27. Getting connected in China: taming the mobile screen / Elaine Jing Zhao

28. The e-commerce revolution: ensuring trust and consumer rights in China / Ming Cheung

29. Elderly people and the internet: a demographic reconsideration / Huan Wu

Part V Recalibrating space, tradition and regional identity

30. Editor's introduction / Michael Keane

31. Between contemporary and traditional: the ongoing search for a Chinese architectural identity / Christiane M. Herr

32. Chinese fashion designers: rebuilding from the centre of the world / Tim Lindgren

33. Spectacles, showcases, marketplaces (and even public spheres): Chinese film festivals as cultural industries / Ran Ma and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong

34. Who is the knowledge gatekeeper in the creative cluster? a case study of Guangdong industrial design / Juncheng Dai and Michael Keane

35. A comparative perspective on the industrialization of art in the republican period in Shanghai and today's creative industry clusters / Jane Zheng.

Notes:

Contributors include: R. Bai, M. Cheung, Y. Chu, P. Chung, J. Dai, J. De Kloet, A.Y.H. Fung, L. Gorfinkel, M. Guo, E.C. Hendriks, C.M. Herr, V. Ho, Y. Huang, M. Keane, H. Li, W. Li, Y. Li, W. Lei, B. Liboriussen, T. Lindgren, R. Ma, L. Montgomery, Z. Qiu, E. Priest, X. Ren, F. Schneider, W. Sun, M.A. Ulfstjerne, J. Wang, Q. Wang, C. Hing-Yuk Wong, H. Wu, B. Yecies, L. Yi, N. Yi, X. Zhang, E.J. Zhao, J. Zheng.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781782549864 (e-book)

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