China's New Cultural Entrepreneurs and Creative Industries, 2000–2022: Guest Editors’ Introduction

Journal
Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
ISSN
1868-1026
1868-4874
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2024
Author(s)
;
Editor(s)
DOI
Abstract
This Special Issue aims to open new windows on cultural entrepreneurship in China's new media and creative industries from circa 2000 to 2022. It presents four studies on Chinese cultural entrepreneurship in literary production, visual arts, social media, and cinema. These studies analyse from various angles the rise of cultural entrepreneurship – straddling commerce and culture – in China's official and vernacular cultures, including the role of gender and the rise of women cultural entrepreneurs in China's new mediasphere, within an adverse socio-political environment. Analysis of voices, themes, and a network of negotiations and exchanges in literary texts, visual artworks, movies, social media, and the socio-cultural and political discourses in China's mediasphere sheds new light on self-fashioning in transmedia narratives, the new cultural dynamics of the digital age, and the tensions between China's vernacular cultures – which thrive in digital spaces and non-official communities – and the officially ordained culture of the party-state.
Language
English
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
SAGE
Publisher place
Thousand Oaks, CA
Volume
53
Number
2
Start page
157
End page
166
Pages
10
Official URL
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