The Business of culture: cultural entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia

Abstract

Foreword by Wang Gungwu Introduction / Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland 1 Enter the Cultural Entrepreneur / Christopher Rea Part 1: Cultural Personalities 2 Between the Literata and the New Woman: Lu Bicheng as Cultural Entrepreneur / Grace Fong 3 The Butterfly Mark: Chen Diexian, His Brand, and Cultural Entrepreneurism in Republican China / Eugenia Lean 4 Culture by Post: Correspondence Schools in Early Republican China / Michael Gibbs Hill Part 2: Tycoons 5 Aw Boon Haw, the Tiger from Nanyang: Social Entrepreneurship, Transregional Journalism, and Public Culture / Sin Yee Theng and Nicolai Volland 6 One Chicken, Three Dishes: The Cultural Enterprises of Law Bun / Sai-Shing Yung and Christopher Rea Part 3: Collective Enterprises 7 Local Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks: Publishing Markets and Cantonese Communities within and across National Borders / Robert Culp 8 Cultural Consumption and Cosmopolitan Connections: Chinese Cinema Entrepreneurs in 1920s and 1930s Singapore / Chua Ai Lin 9 Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Twilight: The Shanghai Book Trade Association, 1945-57 / Nicolai Volland Epilogue: Beyond the Age of Cultural Entrepreneurship, 1949-Present / Christopher A. Reed and Nicolai Volland Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index