China is at the crux of reforming, professionalizing, and internationalizing its cultural and creative industries. In this comprehensive Handbook, international experts including leading Mainland scholars examine the background to China’s cultural and creative industries as well as the challenges ahead.

Contents: Foreword Stephanie Hemelryk Donald 1. Introduction Michael Keane PART I THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES RECONSIDERED 2. Doing Chinese Cultural Industries: A Reflection on the Blue-book Syndrome and Remedy Paradigm Zitong Qiu 3. The Ten Thousand Things, the Chinese Dream and the Creative Cultural Industries Michael Keane 4. The Makers are Coming: China’s Long Tail Revolution Jing Wang 5. Balinghou and Qilinghou: Generational Difference and Creativity in China Bjarke Liboriussen 6. The Artyficial Paradise: Municipal Face-work in a Chinese Boomtown Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne PART II ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT, IDEOLOGY AND FUTURE CHALLENGES FACING THE CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN CHINA 7. Editor’s Introduction Michael Keane 8. The Cultural Industries in China: A Historical Overview Xiaoming Zhang 9. The Challenges of China’s Culture ‘Going to the World’ Wuwei Li 10. Chinese Culture ‘Going Out’: An Overview of Government Policies and an Analysis of Challenges and Opportunities for International Collaboration Huailiang Li 11. Ethnic Cultural Industries and the ‘One Place, One Product Strategy’ Na Yi 12. Globalization and Ethnic Grounded Cultural Creativity in Yunnan Yan Li and Ying Huang 13. Cultural Organizations in China: Creating Digital Platforms for Success Marina Guo PART III TRADITIONAL CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRY SECTORS IN FLUX 14. Editor’s Introduction Michael Keane 15. The Cultural Governance of Mass Media in Contemporary China Florian Schneider 16. The Regionalization of Co-Production in the Film Industries of Hong Kong SAR and Mainland China Peichi Chung and Lianyuan Yi 17. Chinese Transnational Cinema and the Collaborative Tilt Toward South Korea Brian Yecies 18. Chinese Documentary: Towards Commercialization Yingchi Chu 19. The Urban-Rural Divide in China’s Cultural Industries: The Case of Chinese Radio Wei Lei, Lauren Gorfinkel and Wanning Sun 20. Animation Industries in China: Managed Creativity or State Discourse? Anthony Y-H Fung and Vicky Ho 21. From ‘Nothing to My Name’ to ‘I am a Singer’: Market, Capital, and Politics in the Chinese Music Industry Qian Wang and Jeroen De Kloet 22. China’s Self-Help Industry: American(Ized) Life Advice in China Eric C. Hendriks PART IV ASSESSING DIGITAL LIVES, CONSTRUCTING CREATIVE FUTURES 23. Editor’s Introduction Michael Keane 24. Copyright in China’s Digital Cultural Industries Lucy Montgomery and Eric Priest 25. Commercial and Digital Transformation of Chinese Television Ruoyun Bai 26. Between Sustaining and Disruptive Innovation: China’s Digital Publishing Industry in the Age of Mobile Internet Xiang Ren 27. Getting Connected in China: Taming the Mobile Screen Elaine Jing Zhao 28. The E-commerce Revolution: Ensuring Trust and Consumer Rights in China Ming Cheung 29. Elderly People and the Internet: A Demographic Reconsideration Huan Wu PART V RECALIBRATING SPACE, TRADITION AND REGIONAL IDENTITY 30. Editor’s Introduction Michael Keane 31. Between Contemporary and Traditional: The Ongoing Search for a Chinese Architectural Identity Christiane M. Herr 32. Chinese Fashion Designers: Rebuilding from the Centre of the World Tim Lindgren 33. Spectacles, Showcases, Marketplaces (and Even Public Spheres): Chinese Film Festivals as Cultural Industries Ran Ma and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong 34. Who is the Knowledge Gatekeeper in the Creative Cluster? A Case Study of Guangdong Industrial Design City Juncheng Dai and Michael Keane 35. A Comparative Perspective on the Industrialization of Art in the Republican Period in Shanghai and Today’s Creative Industry Clusters Jane Zheng Index