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

• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, British Columbia : , : UBC Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.47700951
• Soggetto topico: Cultural industries - China; Cultural industries - Southeast Asia; Businesspeople - China
• Soggetto geografico: China Economic conditions 20th century Case studies; Southeast Asia Economic conditions 20th century Case studies; China; Southeast Asia
• Persona (resp. second.): ReaChristopher; VollandNicolai; WangGungwu
• 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: From the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century, changing technologies and growing transregional ties provided unprecedented opportunities for the entrepreneurially minded in China and Southeast Asia. The Business of Culture examines the rise of Chinese "cultural entrepreneurs," businesspeople who risked financial well-being and reputation by investing in multiple cultural enterprises in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rich in biographical detail, the interlinked case studies featured in this volume introduce three distinct archetypes: the cultural personality, the tycoon, and the collective enterprise. These portraits reveal how changes in social and economic conditions created the fertile soil for business success; conditions that are similar to those emerging in China today.
• Titolo autorizzato: The business of culture
• ISBN: 0-7748-2782-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787137303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary Chinese studies.