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Understanding CCI through Chinese Theatre

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  • Identifies the CCP’s role as the ‘central bank’, in driving forward Chinese CCI

  • Argues that China’s CCI development of traditional performing arts mirrors that of the CCP

  • Aims to bridge Western and Chinese theory, in the field of artistic socio-economics, to tackle Chinese CCI issues

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This book examines the development of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) in China through the angle of Chinese Theatre, xiqu. It focuses on the political and socio-economic transition period at the turn of the 21st century, as China evolves from ‘Made in China’ to ‘Created in China’, highlighting associated class reconstruction and cultural production and consumption. There are many forms of Chinese Theatre, the most popular one throughout Chinese history to date is the sing-song drama, collectively refers to as xiqu, which currently has over 300 regional styles across China. In 2014, President Xi Jinping’s Beijing Talk on Arts and Literature, which serves as China’s latest Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ideological direction and cultural policy, stressed that ‘the future of Chinese cultural and creative industries is to be anchored on traditional art forms, such as xiqu’. Such Chinese cultural and creative industry distinction will be addressed in this book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

    Haili Ma

About the author

Haili Ma is Associate Professor in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. Haili’s research focuses on Chinese theatre and the cultural and creative industries in global contexts. Before coming to the UK in 1997, Haili was a member of the Shanghai Luwan All-Female Yue Opera Company, specializing in Xiaosheng (male role). Haili is the author of Urban Politics and Cultural Capital: The Case of Chinese Opera (2015).

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