Creativity in Chinese Contexts

Sociocultural and Dispositional Analyses

Chau-kiu Cheung, Xiaodong Yue

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781032090078
• eBook ISBN: 9780429793240
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Creative Ability in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Examining creativity in Chinese societies from both a personal and contextual standpoint, this ground-breaking book offers readers a unique insight into the Chinese mind. It provides a review of the nature, origins, and consequences of creativity, deriving from empirical evidence in the Chinese context. Specifically, the book unravels the conceptualization of creativity and its relationships with various demographic and dispositional factors in Chinese societies. The book proceeds to give readers an understanding of how creativity maintains reciprocal relationships with various forms of well-being. The content of the book brings together empirical evidence and theory grounded on Chinese societies to offer researchers and students a unique realistic view of the nature of creativity there. This book will be a must read for any researcher or practitioner interested in this fascinating topic.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Regional differences
• 3 Background, personality, and contextual effects on creativity
• 4 Effects of contextual creativity and other contextual factors
• 5 Relationships between creativity and other dispositions and feelings
• 6 Regional difference in creator identification
• 7 Conclusion
• References
• Index