1. Introduction: Cultural Policy in Asia Lorraine Lim 2. Cultural policy between the state and the market: regulation, creativity and contradiction Q.S. Tong and Ruth Y.Y. Hung 3. Ambitions of a global city: arts, culture and creative economy in ‘Post- Crisis’ Singapore Lily Kong 4. Corporate support for the arts in Japan: beyond emulation of the Western models Nobuko Kawashima 5. Constructing habitus: promoting an international arts trend at the Singapore Arts Festival Lorraine Lim 6. Progress without consensus: ‘instituting’ Arts Council in Korea Hye-Kyung Lee 7. Rebooting the dragon at the cross-roads? Divergence or convergence of cultural policy in Taiwan Hsiao-Ling Chung
Lorraine Lim is a Lecturer in Arts Management at Birkbeck, University of London, UK. Her primary research interests lie in investigating new and current strategies utilised by cities in Asia to transform themselves into capitals of culture. Her current research projects include labour conditions in the arts and cultural sector.