Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China

by Justin O'Connor and Xin Gu

As China's leading economic metropolis and 'most western city' Shanghai in the last twenty years has used culture as a major spur to its ambitions to become a global city. This book is the first systematic investigation of how various 'cultural economy' strategies have been framed and pursued in a Chinese urban context. But Shanghai's modernization, frequently couched in terms of 'catching up with the West' has - like that of China as a whole - developed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415714079
• ISBN13: 9780415714075
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages