Red Creative

Culture and Modernity in China

Red Creative
Justin O'Connor, Xin Gu
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h244 x 170mm - 320pg
11 Dec 2020 UK
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9781789382303
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Red Creative is an exploration of China' s cultural economy over the last twenty years, particularly through the lens of its creative hub of Shanghai. The research presented here raises questions about the nature of contemporary ' creative' capitalism and the universal claims of Western modernity, offering new ways of thinking about cultural policy in China. Taking a long-term historical perspective, Justin O' Connor and Xin Gu analyze the ongoing development of China' s cultural industries, examining the institutions, regulations, interests, and markets that underpin the Chinese cultural economy and the strategic position of Shanghai within it. Further, the authors explore cultural policy reforms in post-colonial China and articulate Shanghai' s significance in paving China' s path to modernity and entry to global capitalism. In-depth and illuminating, Red Creative carefully situates China' s contemporary cultural economy in its larger global and historical context, revealing the limits of Western thought in understanding Chinese history, culture, and society.
Red Creative is a stunning piece of synthetic scholarship. It' s an essential overview of the limitations of major bodies of western thought in understanding Chinese history, culture and society, especially the ways concepts of culture and creativity have been mobilized in China over the last twenty years. -- David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds. The book' s scope is as remarkable as its depth. It presents an authoritative view of contemporary Chinese cultural policy and the development of the creative industries approach/agenda in China and the Asian region generally [. . . ] It is a carefully crafted, fully researched analysis and assessment of a culture often treated as an object of fantasy by western intellectuals. -- Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University, Australia
Justin O' Connor is professor of communications and cultural economy at Monash University and visiting professor in the School of Media and Design at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781789382303
Published: 11 Dec 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Intellect Books
Publisher: Intellect Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 244mm
Width: 170mm
Pages: 320

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