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The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65
Christopher Rea (Ed.)
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Description for The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65
Hardback. The first critical analysis of Chinese "cultural entrepreneurs," businesspeople whose entrepreneurial endeavours in China and Southeast Asia the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed the cultural sphere. Editor(s): Rea, Christopher G.; Volland, Nicolai. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies Series. Num Pages: 30 b&w photographs, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FP; 3JJ; JFC; KJH; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 635.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary Chinese Studies Series
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774827805
SKU
V9780774827805
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About Christopher Rea (Ed.)
Christopher Rea is an associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia. Nicolai Volland is an assistant professor of Asian studies and comparative literature at Pennsylvania State University. Contributors: Chua Ai Lin, Robert Culp, Grace Fong, Michael Gibbs Hill, Eugenia Lean, Christopher A. Reed, Sin Yee Theng, Wang Gungwu, and Sai-Shing Yung
Reviews for The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65
This collection of essays represents a new period in the historiography of China, and the vantage point, that of capitalist China revived and flourishing, fits well with the analyses presented in the volume. Indeed, as Rea’s theoretical chapter on the concept of cultural entrepreneurship notes, this offers a new approach to "pluralism and mobility in the cultural sphere" (27) beyond ... Read more