A critique of China's cultural policy and the development of its cultural and creative industries: the case of Shanghai
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.
Keywords: Shanghai; cultural and creative industries; cultural democracy; cultural policy; experiment under hierarchy
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Division of International Communications,University of Nottingham Ningbo, China 2: Centre for Culture, Media & Creative Industries, School of Arts and Humanities,King's College, UK
Publication date: 01 September 2012
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