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About this book
The paradoxical relationship between Chinese creative workers and the state
Chinese Creator Economies dives into the paradoxical lives lived by creative professionals in emerging economies across China. Jian Lin contextualizes the socioeconomic conditions in which cultural production takes place and pushes back against the dominant understanding of Chinese media as a centralized, state-controlled apparatus by looking at how individual creative workers grapple with governance and precarity in the Chinese cultural industries and develop their bilateral subjectivities within the politico-economic system of Chinese media.
Drawing on intensive empirical research conducted on creative labor practices across television, journalism, design, and social media, Chinese Creative Economies looks at both Chinese and foreign-born content creators, exploring the tensions between Beijing's limits on individual creativity, and its aspirations to become a global hub for cultural production. Lin maintains that it is the production of bilateral creatives that generates and maintains hope for the future of those who live and work within the cultural economies of China.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: The Bilateral Creatives
- 1: Understanding China’s Cultural Industries
- 2: Being Creative for the State
- 3: From Independent to Art Film and Back Again
- 4: (Un-)Becoming Chinese Creatives
- 5: The Unlikely Creative Class
- 6: The Future of Bilateral Creatives
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix I: Interviewee List
- Appendix II: Chinese Cultural Industries Policy (1987–2017 Selected)
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author