The Business of Culture

Foreword by Wang Gungwu

Introduction / Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland

1 Enter the Cultural Entrepreneur / Christopher Rea

Part 1: Cultural Personalities

2 Between the Literata and the New Woman: Lü Bicheng as Cultural Entrepreneur / Grace Fong

3The Butterfly Mark: Chen Diexian, His Brand, and Cultural Entrepreneurism in Republican China / Eugenia Lean

4 Culture by Post: Correspondence Schools in Early Republican China / Michael Gibbs Hill

Part 2: Tycoons

5 Aw Boon Haw, the Tiger from Nanyang: Social Entrepreneurship, Transregional Journalism, and Public Culture / Sin Yee Theng and Nicolai Volland

6 One Chicken, Three Dishes: The Cultural Enterprises of Law Bun / Sai-Shing Yung and Christopher Rea

Part 3: Collective Enterprises

7 Local Entrepreneurs, Transnational Networks: Publishing Markets and Cantonese Communities within and across National Borders / Robert Culp

8 Cultural Consumption and Cosmopolitan Connections: Chinese Cinema Entrepreneurs in 1920s and 1930s Singapore / Chua Ai Lin

9 Cultural Entrepreneurship in the Twilight: The Shanghai Book Trade Association, 1945-57 / Nicolai Volland

Epilogue: Beyond the Age of Cultural Entrepreneurship, 1949-Present / Christopher A. Reed and Nicolai Volland

Glossary; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index