Great expectations: China's cultural industry and case study of a government-sponsored creative cluster

Autor: Shaun Chang
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Creative Industries Journal. 1:263-273
ISSN: 1751-0708
1751-0694
DOI: 10.1386/cij.1.3.263_1
Popis: The Chinese government proposed to upgrade its manufacturing-driven economy to a creative and innovation-based economy by developing cultural industries. Developing cultural industries involves a process of cultural modernization demanding a whole series of economic, legal and socio-urban structures within which these industries can thrive.In China, the essence of the cultural industry reforms is to open up the country's cultural market and facilitate the development of a cultural economy, whilst retaining the government's tight grip of content. The partial privatization operations under the party-controlled system have caused years of conflict between commercial and public interests. Examples can be found from the case study of a government-sponsored creative cluster, International Creative Industries Alliance (ICIA), Beijing.As the cultural industries began with the exterior sectors of the industries, the reforms have brought little impact to the core sector — the content industry. But the refor...
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