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.

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 debates in East Asia around cultural policy and creative industries, and the wider futures for cultural policy in a global knowledge economy. (Terry Flew, Pacific Affairs, Vol. 89 (3), September, 2016)

'This book will be widely welcomed for the insights it provides on the state of cultural policy in five East Asian states: Singapore, China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan...Indeed what is most impressive is the way in which each chapter captures an essence of a nation's individual socio-economic and cultural history or contemporary context. Yet at the same time themes emerge which resonate across these diverse sites.' - Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management, 2014

Autorentext
Terence Chong, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Hsiao-Ling Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Anthony Y. H. Fung, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Xin Gu, University of Melbourne, Australia Kiwon Hong, Sookmyung Women's University, Korea Nobuko Kawashima, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan Michael Keane, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Mari Kobayashi, University of Tokyo, Japan Hye-Kyung Lee, King's College London, UK Lorraine Lim Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Jerry C Y Liu, National Taiwan University of Arts Li-Jung Wang, National Central University, Taiwan Elaine Jing Zhao, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Inhalt
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 ?