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

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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.View full textDownload full textKeywordscultural and creative industries, cultural policy, experiment under hierarchy, cultural democracy, ShanghaiRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2012.698558