The Business of Culture : Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65.
Rea, Christopher.
The Business of Culture : Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (349 pages) - Contemporary Chinese Studies . - Contemporary Chinese Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Enter the Cultural Entrepreneur -- Part 1: Cultural Personalities -- 2 Between the Literata and the New Woman -- 3 The Butterfly Mark -- 4 Culture by Post -- Part 2: Tycoons -- 5 Aw Boon Haw, the Tiger from Nanyang -- 6 One Chicken, Three Dishes -- Part 3: Collective Enterprises -- 7 Local Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks -- 8 Cultural Consumption and Cosmopolitan Connections -- 9 Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Twilight -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
The first critical analysis of Chinese "cultural entrepreneurs," businesspeople whose entrepreneurial endeavours in China and Southeast Asia the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed the cultural sphere.
9780774827829
Entrepreneurship - China.
Electronic books.
HD9999.C9473 -- .B875 2015eb
330.951
The Business of Culture : Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (349 pages) - Contemporary Chinese Studies . - Contemporary Chinese Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Enter the Cultural Entrepreneur -- Part 1: Cultural Personalities -- 2 Between the Literata and the New Woman -- 3 The Butterfly Mark -- 4 Culture by Post -- Part 2: Tycoons -- 5 Aw Boon Haw, the Tiger from Nanyang -- 6 One Chicken, Three Dishes -- Part 3: Collective Enterprises -- 7 Local Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks -- 8 Cultural Consumption and Cosmopolitan Connections -- 9 Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Twilight -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.
The first critical analysis of Chinese "cultural entrepreneurs," businesspeople whose entrepreneurial endeavours in China and Southeast Asia the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed the cultural sphere.
9780774827829
Entrepreneurship - China.
Electronic books.
HD9999.C9473 -- .B875 2015eb
330.951