China is at the crux of reforming, professionalising, and internationalising 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 Donald1. IntroductionMichael KeanePART I THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RECONSIDERED2. Doing Chinese Cultural Industries: A Reflection on the Blue-book Syndrome and Remedy ParadigmZitong Qiu 3. The Ten Thousand Things, the Chinese Dream and the Creative<---->Cultural IndustriesMichael Keane4. The Makers are Coming: China's Long Tail RevolutionJing Wang5. Balinghou and Qilinghou: Generational Difference and Creativity in China Bjarke Liboriussen6. The Artyficial Paradise: Municipal Face-work in a Chinese Boomtown Michael Alexander UlfstjernePART II ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT, IDEOLOGY AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FACING THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN CHINA7. Editor's IntroductionMichael Keane8. The Cultural Industries in China: A Historical Overview Xiaoming Zhang9. The Challenges of China's Culture 'Going to the World' Wuwei Li10. Chinese Culture 'Going Out': An Overview of Government Policies and an Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities for International Collaboration Huailiang Li11. Ethnic Cultural Industries and the 'One Place, One Product Strategy' Na Yi12. Globalization and Ethnic Grounded Cultural Creativity in Yunnan Yan Li and Ying Huang13. Cultural Organizations in China: Creating Digital Platforms for Success Marina GuoPART III TRADITIONAL CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY SECTORS IN FLUX 14. Editor's IntroductionMichael Keane15. The Cultural Governance of Mass Media in Contemporary China Florian Schneider16. 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 RadioWei Lei, Lauren Gorfinkel and Wanning Sun20. Animation Industries in China: Managed Creativity or State Discourse? Anthony Y-H Fung and Vicky Ho21. 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 ChinaEric C. HendriksPART IV ASSESSING DIGITAL LIVES, CONSTRUCTING CREATIVE FUTURES23. Editor's IntroductionMichael Keane24. Copyright in China's Cultural Industries Lucy Montgomery and Eric Priest25. Commercial and Digital Transformation of Chinese TelevisionRuoyun Bai26. Between Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation: China's Digital Publishing Industry in the Age of Mobile Internet Xiang Ren27. Getting Connected in China: Taming the Mobile Screen Elaine Jing Zhao 28. The E-commerce Revolution: Ensuring Trust and Consumer Rights in ChinaMing Cheung29. Elderly People and the Internet: A Demographic Reconsideration Huan Wu PART V RECALIBRATING SPACE, TRADITION AND REGIONAL IDENTITY30. Editor's IntroductionMichael Keane31. Between Contemporary and Traditional: The Ongoing Search for a Chinese Architectural IdentityChristiane M. Herr32. Chinese Fashion Designers: Rebuilding from the Centre of the World Tim Lindgren33. Spectacles, Showcases, Marketplaces (and Even Public Spheres): Chinese Film Festivals as Cultural Industries Ran Ma and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong34. Who is the Knowledge Gatekeeper in the Creative Cluster? A Case Study of Guangdong Industrial DesignJuncheng Dai and Michael Keane35. A Comparative Perspective on the Industrialization of Art in the Republican Period in Shanghai and Today's Creative Industry Clusters Jane ZhengIndex