What is it about?
Interwar Shanghai saw the rise of new forms of cultural industries - film, music, magazines, theatre, radio - where a mix of cosmopolitan and communist ideas combined to create a radical culture which embraced popular culture and the new technologies associated with it. What lessons for contemporary cultural industries in China?
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Why is it important?
Shanghai culture of the 'golden age' is often viewed as either propaganda or western oriented. This paper suggests it was neither but a real attempt to speak to a new mass audience through the new technologies and industrial structures of the 'culture industry'.
Perspectives
My attempt to change the view of interwar Shanghai culture and link it with other more radical approaches to the cultural industries in the US, Uk and contemporary China.
justin O'Connor
University of South Australia
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This page is a summary of: Cultural Industries and the Cultural Front – Historical and Contemporary Reflections, November 2023, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004685925_011.
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