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The Business of Culture : Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Chinese StudiesPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (349 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774827829
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Business of CultureDDC classification:
  • 330.951
LOC classification:
  • HD9999.C9473 -- .B875 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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