Current CMCI student's article in Cultural Trends journal

Our current Postgraduate taught student Sujing Xu (MA Cultural and Creative Industries) has co-authored an article on 'A critique of China's cultural policy and the development of its cultural and creative industries: the case of Shanghai' during her study at King’s College London, together with Associate Professor Andrew White from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

She presented the paper together with Dr White during the Cultural Trends conference in London in November 2011.

The paper analyses the development of China's creative and cultural industries using the city of Shanghai as a case study. The authors argue that while the difficulty of applying a uniform policy to the whole of China has created ambiguities which creative workers can exploit for their own ends, the opportunities that these afford are more economic in orientation as creativity still takes place within the parameters laid down by the Chinese government.