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Publishing and Soft Power in an Age of Revolution
Lucy Montgomery: Queensland University of Technology Few people working within Universities will have missed the recent furore surrounding academic publishing. What has been termed ‘the academic...
View ArticleThe soft power conundrum: China’s search for originality
For many in China the term soft power has come to symbolize the ‘going out’ of national culture in the second decade of the 21st century. Significantly, this decade echoes a period called the New...
View ArticleBook Reviews: August 2012
Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture Beng-Huat Chua, published in soft cover and hardback, Hong Kong University Press, 2012. China’s Design Revolution Lorraine Justice,...
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The ‘Going Out’ of Culture and China’s Soft Power Development
Irene Ma, Queensland University of Technology Limitations of the state-planned cultural economy China has transformed from planned economy to market economy since 1980s. However, in the cultural...
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Japanese GNC and Soft Power – are they two sides of the same coin?
Seiko Yasumoto, University of Sydney Why has Japanese popular culture had such a tremendous impact on Asian youth? The answer is sometimes described in three words: Gross National Cool (GNC). While...
View ArticleCreative Industries in China: Art, Design, Media
Creative Industries in China is drawn from my research over the past decade on how Chinese policy makers, artists, designers and media practitioners are attempting to change a widespread perception...
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