Contents: 1. Setting the scene -- 2. From cultural heritage to local development -- 3. Creativity: definitions and measures -- 4. A new conceptual framework for the definition and measurement of creativity -- 5. From cultural heritage to creativity -- 6. From creativity to socio-economic...

This volume addresses the rapid growth of China's cultural industry and its significant cultural and economic impact on the country. It considers what exactly constitutes the cultural industry, defining the basis for discussions on issues as the internal tensions constraining China's cultural...

Chapter 1: A Pragmatic approach to the arts -- Chapter 2: What values are, and how we learn to appreciate them -- Chapter 3: How Artists Imagine New Worlds -- Chapter 4: How the Audience, as Participant, Makes Worlds Real -- Chapter 5: Making Space for Cultural Civil Society.