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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459812303321

Titolo

The business of culture : cultural entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65 / / edited by Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland ; foreword by Wang Gungwu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, British Columbia : , : UBC Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-7748-2782-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Chinese Studies

Disciplina

338.47700951

Soggetti

Cultural industries - China

Cultural industries - Southeast Asia

Businesspeople - China

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Enter the Cultural Entrepreneur / Christopher Rea -- PART 1: CULTURAL PERSONALITIES. Between the Literata and the New Woman: Lü Bicheng as Cultural Entrepreneur / Grace Fong -- The Butterfly Mark: Chen Diexian, His Brand, and Cultural Entrepreneurism in Republican China / Eugenia Lean -- Culture by Post: Correspondence Schools in Early Republican China / Michael Gibbs Hill --

PART 2: TYCOONS. Aw Boon Haw, the Tiger from Nanyang: Social Entrepreneurship, Transregional Journalism, and Public Culture / Sin Yee Theng and Nicolai Volland -- One Chicken, Three Dishes: The Cultural Enterprises of Law Bun / Sai-Shing Yung and Christopher Rea --

PART 3: COLLECTIVE ENTERPRISES. Local Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks: Publishing Markets and Cantonese Communities within and across National Borders / Robert Culp -- Cultural Consumption and Cosmopolitan Connections: Chinese Cinema Entrepreneurs in 1920's and 1930's Singapore / Chua Ai Lin -- Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Twilight: The Shanghai Book Trade Association, 1945-57 / Nicolai Volland -- Epilogue: Beyond the Age of Cultural Entrepreneurship,



1949-Present / Christopher A. Reed and Nicolai Volland -- Glossary.