A critique of China's cultural policy and the development of its cultural and creative industries: The case of Shanghai

TY - JOUR

T1 - A critique of China's cultural policy and the development of its cultural and creative industries

T2 - The case of Shanghai

AU - White, Andrew

AU - Xu, Sujing

PY - 2012/9

Y1 - 2012/9

N2 - This paper analyses the development of China's creative and cultural industries using the city of Shanghai as a case study. The authors argue that while the difficulty of applying a uniform policy to the whole of China has created ambiguities which creative workers can exploit for their own ends, the opportunities that these afford are more economic in orientation as creativity still takes place within the parameters laid down by the Chinese government.

AB - This paper analyses the development of China's creative and cultural industries using the city of Shanghai as a case study. The authors argue that while the difficulty of applying a uniform policy to the whole of China has created ambiguities which creative workers can exploit for their own ends, the opportunities that these afford are more economic in orientation as creativity still takes place within the parameters laid down by the Chinese government.

KW - cultural and creative industries

KW - cultural democracy

KW - cultural policy

KW - experiment under hierarchy

KW - Shanghai

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84865212406

U2 - 10.1080/09548963.2012.698558

DO - 10.1080/09548963.2012.698558

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:84865212406

SN - 0954-8963

VL - 21

SP - 249

EP - 257

JO - Cultural Trends

JF - Cultural Trends

IS - 3

ER -