1st Edition

Labour, Policy, and Ideology in East Asian Creative Industries

Edited By Teri Silvio, Lily H. Chumley Copyright 2020
132 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

This book addresses some of the questions that have been brought to light by the varied experiences of culture industry workers and consumer publics across East Asia over the past decade. For over twenty years, the creative industries have been seen as the engine driving global economic transformation, as a way out of the dilemmas of de-industrialization, and as key to the... Read more

1. Introduction: After creativity: labour, policy, and ideology in East Asian creative industries

Teri Silvio

2. Korea’s blacklist scandal: governmentality, culture, and creativity

Ju Oak Kim

3. Cool governance: Japan’s ubiquitous society, surveillance, and creative industries

Kukhee Choo

4. Nation branding in contemporary Taiwan: a grassroots perspective

Adina Simona Zemanek

5. Representing creative labour and identity in Singaporean graphic novels: Sonny Liew and Troy Chin

Teri Silvio

6. The ‘diaspora advantage’ of Pauline Chan (1956–): from multicultural filmmaker to cultural broker

Audrey Yue

7. The paradoxes of creativity in Guangzhou, China’s wholesale market for fast fashion

Nellie Chu

Biography

Teri Silvio is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology at the Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She is the author of Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan (2019).





Lily H. Chumley is Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, USA. She is the author of Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China (2016).