Cultural Policies in East Asia : Dynamics between the State, Arts and Creative Industries
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 112450116
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137327772
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137327765
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- This co-edited volume is the first book on cultural policies in East Asia, contributing to the field of cultural policy studies by bringing new perspectives on the linkage between Western theories and East Asian understandings of cultural policy. Lee as the main co-editor, in collaboration with Lim, intellectually led the curation of the book and an accompanied research seminar in Seoul, Korea. In addition to being the main author of the introduction chapter, “Cultural Policies in East Asia: An Introduction”, Lee also contributed the sole-authored Chapter 5, “Culture and the State: From a Korean Perspective” that examines the state-culture nexus in South Korea by looking into institutional factors. Lee’s distinctive contribution
Focusing on nation building, the state-culture nexus and the creative economy, the book explores cultural policies in five countries, addressing distinct features of the national and historical context of cultural policy in East Asia. A reviewer notes, ‘A number of chapters from this book will be finding their way into university course guides and will hopefully in turn produce more scholarship (K. MacNeil in Asia Pacific Journal of Cultural Management).
This book opened up ‘a long-awaited intellectual platform for Asian cultural policy researchers’ (B. Choi in Chinese Journal of Communication) and made ‘a strong case for the need to extend conceptual understanding about cultural policy and the creative industries beyond the dominant Anglophone and European contexts’ (T. Flew in Pacific Affairs). This was underpinned by Lee and Lim’s editorial and scholarly assistance for local authors. The book succeeded in triggering further research, including Lee’s co-edited volumes on Asian cultural flows and Routledge Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia (2018 with L Lim) and Asian Cultural Flows (2018, with Kawashima and Lim).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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