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    Entrepreneurial solutionism, characteristic cultural industries and the Chinese dream

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    Authors
    Keane, Michael
    Chen, Y.
    Date
    2017
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Keane, M. and Chen, Y. 2017. Entrepreneurial solutionism, characteristic cultural industries and the Chinese dream. International Journal of Cultural Policy.
    Source Title
    International Journal of Cultural Policy
    DOI
    10.1080/10286632.2017.1374382
    ISSN
    1028-6632
    School
    Department of Communication and Cultural Studies
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170102176
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56587
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    In this paper, we chart the development of creative cities from urban clusters through to ‘characteristic towns’, the latter typology reflecting a government desire to build distinctive cultural brands. We illustrate how this recent development iteration has played out in Hangzhou and its relationship to Internet+, a policy blueprint introduced by the Chinese government in March 2015 which underpins ambitions to make China an innovative nation. The term ‘entrepreneurial solutionism’ describes a proclivity to see digital technology as a solution to China’s social and economic problems, and a way to enhance the realisation of the ‘Chinese Dream’ of national rejuvenation. Central to the Internet + blueprint is the slogan ‘mass entrepreneurship, mass innovation’, suggesting elements of the kind of Silicon Valley style neoliberalism, often celebrated in start-up cultures. While it has become fashionable to append the term neoliberalism to China’s developments, we argue that China’s reversion to hard authoritarianism under Xi Jinping renders this description problematic.

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