Cultural Policies in East Asia: Dynamics between the State, Arts and Creative Industries [Hardcover]

This book provides a detailed snapshot of cultural policies in China, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. In addition to an historical overview of the culture-state relationships in East Asia, it provides an analysis of contemporary developments occurring in the regions' cultural policies and the challenges they are facing.List of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Cultural Policies in East Asia: An Introduction; Hye-Kyung Lee and Lorraine Lim PART I: CULTURAL IDENTITY FORMATION AND NATION BUILDING 1. Bureaucratic Imaginations in the Global City: Arts and Culture in Singapore; Terence Chong 2. Cultural Difference, National Identity and Cultural Policy in Taiwan; Li-jung Wang 3. Online Games and Chinese National Identities; Anthony Fung 4. Nation Branding of Korea; Kiwon Hong PART II: NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN CULTURE AND THE STATE 5. Culture and the State: From a Korean Perspective; Hye-Kyung Lee 6. Negotiation and Adaptation: Singapore Theater as Civil Society; Lorraine Lim 7. ReOrienting Cultural Policy: Cultural Statecraft; and Cultural Governance in Taiwan and China; Jerry C.Y. Liu 8. The Paradigm Shift in Local Cultural Policy in Japan; Mari Kobayashi PART III: THE RISE OF CREATIVE INDUSTRIES POLICY 9. The Reform of the Cultural System: Culture, Creativity and Innovation in China; Michael Keaneand Elaine Jing Zhao 10. Creative Industries, Creative Clusters and Cultural Policy in Shanghai; Xin Gu 11. Developing the Creative Economy: The Network Approach of the Five Municipalities in Taiwan; Hsiao-Ling Chung 12. The Film Industry in Japan: Prospering without Active Support from the State?; Nobuko Kawashima ?

This collection of essays makes a strong case for the need to explicitly incorporate insights from the fast-growing, fast-changing nations of East Asia, and to extend conceptual understanding about cultural policy and the creative industries beyond the dominant Anglophone and European contexts. & This collection points to the vibrancy of dlÓÃ