The Business of Culture: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900-65
- Editor: Rea, Christopher
- Editor: Volland, Nicolai
Book
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Contents
- 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
- 3The 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