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Phillip Adams Travelling in China – Shanghai Culture

Phillip Adams Traveling in Shanghai from ABC

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Chinese cultural industries indicator – do we need more indicators?

Today all major chinese medias published the news of the 3rd ‘Chinese Cultural Industries and City Branding international forum’ hosted by People’s University and Cultural industries department (of cultural bureau) in Beijing. The most eye-catching news from this international forum … Continue reading

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cultural minister reject the claims about cultural industries

Sina news today report: cultural minister of China rejected claims about ‘cultural industries’ Cai Wu- the cultural minister of China said in an event that department of culture has never voiced for ‘marketization’ and ‘industrialisation’. These claims are one-sided and … Continue reading

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Ant tribe – an archive

It’s been a while since I heard the term ‘ant tribe’ through Chinese Media. I also watched the show ‘snail living’ whilst I visited Shanghai 2 years ago. These seemingly remote experiences to me have made me really think about … Continue reading

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Big community – dismantling of ‘Jie Dao’

According to Wang Yi News, Beijing will be the first city to test out on dismantling ‘Jie dao’ – the community office of the communist party based on ‘Beijing 12th five year plan on government structural reorganization’. The Chinese community … Continue reading

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re-making the city: an urban cultural policy for the 21st Century?

This half day workshop is organised by the Urban Modernities Lab @ http://urbanmodernity.org/ 7th Oct, 2011 The Gibson Room, Garden’s Point, QUT Convenor: Prof. Justin O’Connor Panel: Marcus Westbury, Eleni Arbus, Kathleen Horton, Paul Hey, Robert Leonard, Kevin Hayes, Cathy … Continue reading

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Beyond ‘hard’ trade: Australian’s trading strategy shift in China

While I am doing the research for a competitive grant application, I discovered a pattern of Australian’s trading strategy with China. Here are some results of the research. I thought I shall begin with the Australian Foreign PM’s launch of … Continue reading

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‘From Rebel to Insiders’ – an interesting account of Chinese film makers

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what’s happening in china? justin’s presentation at IMA (institute of modern art)

China at GOMA by justin

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Prof. Justin O’Connor attending UNESCO workshop on “Strengthening the Governance of Culture in Developing Countries”.

On 21st March 2011, Prof. Justin O’Connor was invited by UNESCO as one of 30 international experts to attend its workshop in Rabat in Morocco on ‘strengthening the governance of culture in developing countries’. unesco convention on the protection and … Continue reading

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