Zhang Yimou and Impressions of West Lake
This is a guest post by Joy Danjing Zhang Zhang Yimou is China’s most internationally renowned film director; he is best known for the epic wuxia films Hero and House of Flying Daggers. Zhang’s...
View ArticleThe ‘Going Out’ of Culture and China’s Soft Power Development
Limitations of the state-planned cultural economy China has transformed from planned economy to market economy since 1980s. However, in the cultural field, most projects are state planned, mainly...
View ArticleMalaysia: transforming through animation and museum culture
Before the idea of developing a ‘creative economy’ came to the attention of policy makers in Malaysia the government had already committed heavily to a key project known as the Multimedia Super...
View ArticleThoughts on Laa-sai Cit-gai, or Lesser Design
The title of the bilingual book “Laa-sai cit-gai” (in Cantonese) or “Lesser Design,” written by SIU King-chung and published by a Hong Kong-based company, MCCM Creations, in July 2012, is evocative in...
View ArticleMy dynamic impression of Yunnan
Descending into Kunming the capital of Yunnan province, my China Southern Airlines flight disappears into a cotton-like mass of creamy white clouds. This is the province known as land of ‘southern...
View ArticleThe Chinese Knot: Lives of the Xing family women
After my mother’s funeral at the Sleeping Tiger Mountain in Wuhan I kissed her grave and said goodbye before we drove home. We are not supposed to look back as the ghost will follow us and bring bad...
View ArticleToo much reliance on tradition inhibits innovation
过分依赖传统会阻碍创新 Interview with Prof. Michael Keane Published in Chinese in Creative World (创意世界)magazine, February 2014 (Vol 2, Issue 62) First of all, thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule...
View ArticleTraditional Bhutanese Costume: Continuity, culture and innovation
Bhutan is a small developing country of little over 700,000 people in the Himalayas, sometimes referred to in the past as the hermit kingdom. Up until 2007, monarchy was the established political...
View ArticleCulture and TV: not irreconcilable opposites
Despite scepticism about its future, television lives on in new ways. As in most media industries around the world television in China is in a state of rapid change. Local adaptation of TV formats is...
View ArticleAssessing Indonesia’s government-led creative transformation
Assessing Indonesia’s government-led creative transformation By Erich Renz Erich is an interdisciplinary Master of Creative Industries student at Popakademie Baden-Württemberg (GER) and Queensland...
View ArticleSixty-four Chance Pieces: A Book of Changes, a Cycle of Stories from the I Ching
The Garden Bookshop can be found on Changle Road in the French Concession, a quiet locale in busy downtown Shanghai. It’s a convenient place to meet friends, read books or enjoy coffee and ice cream....
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