Cultural policies in East Asia
Subtitle: dynamics between the state, arts and creative industries
By: edited by Hye-Kyung Lee,  King's College London, UK and Lorraine Lim, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781137327765
Subjects: Cultural policy; Art and state; Cultural industries; Government policy; Politics and culture; Group identity; Social change; Politics and government; Economic conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Description: "Corresponding with their increasing political and economic significance, East Asian countries are actively devising cultural policy so as to make their mark in the global cultural landscape. This book takes a detailed snapshot of past and current cultural policies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition to a historical overview of culture-state relationships in the region, the contributors provide an analysis of contemporary developments in the regions' cultural policies and their challenges. They interrogate the transforming dynamics between the state, arts and creative industries against the regions' rapidly changing political and economic backdrops. Three emerging themes are highlighted: the continuity of cultural identity formation linked with nation building; the contentious coupling between culture and the state and the challenges it faces; and the emergence of creative industries as a new link between culture and economy"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: List of Figures; title: List of Tables; title: Notes on Contributors; title: Cultural Policies in East Asia : an Introduction / Hye-Kyung Lee and Lorraine Lim; title: PART I. CULTURAL IDENTITY FORMATION AND NATION BUILDING; title: 1. Bureaucratic Imaginations in the Global City : Arts and Culture in Singapore / Terence Chong; title: 2. Cultural Difference, National Identity and Cultural Policy in Taiwan / Li-jung Wang; title: 3. Online Games and Chinese National Identities / Anthony Fung; title: 4. Nation Branding of Korea / Kiwon Hong; title: PART II. NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN CULTURE AND THE STATE; title: 5. Culture and the State : from a Korean Perspective / Hye-Kyung Lee; title: 6. Negotiation and Adaptation : Singapore Theater as Civil Society / Lorraine Lim; title: 7. ReOrienting Cultural Policy: Cultural Statecraft; and Cultural Governance in Taiwan and China / Jerry C.Y. Liu; title: 8. The Paradigm Shift in Local Cultural Policy in Japan / Mari Kobayashi; title: PART III. THE RISE OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES POLICY; title: 9. The Reform of the Cultural System : Culture, Creativity and Innovation in China / Michael Keane and Elaine Jing Zhao; title: 10. Creative Industries, Creative Clusters and Cultural Policy in Shanghai / Xin Gu; title: 11. Developing the Creative Economy : the Network Approach of the Five Municipalities in Taiwan / Hsiao-Ling Chung; title: 12. The Film Industry in Japan : Prospering without Active Support from the State? / Nobuko Kawashima.