Innovative and Creative Industries in Hong Kong - A Global City in China and Asia

List of contents

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Photographs
Preface
Foreword

1. Introduction: Hong Kong as an unfinished experiment


2. Hong Kong as the Asian art capital


3. Asian world city with a cultural crust: the West Kowloon Cultural District Project?


4. Innovation technology as a national project


5. A hollow digital entertainment hub


6. Hong Kong movies: its story of globalization


7. TV industry: a regional brand falls into decline


8. Government policy: from non-intervention to bureaucratic control


9. Greater Bay Area: Hong Kong’s co-opetition with Mainland cities


10. Conclusion: creative and cultural industries in a political laboratory

Index

About the author

Grace L K Leung is a lecturer in the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Scholar, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, China. She has also been a popular commentator on innovative and creative industry development in Hong Kong and the Greater China Region for over two decades.

Summary

Drawing insights from cultural history, innovation economics, cultural policy studies and cultural geography, this book explores the opportunities and challenges of Hong Kong innovative and creative industries, in particular after the change of sovereignty in 1997.

Product details

• Authors: Grace L K Leung, Grace L K (The Chinese University of Hong K Leung
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138068490
• ISBN: 978-1-138-06849-0
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Nationalism, Hong Kong, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Sociology: work & labour, Urban communities, Industry & industrial studies, Sociology: work and labour, Industry and industrial studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements