Creative Chinese Countryside? Township-Village Enterprises as Incubators  

作　　者：Mengchuan Liu Yi-Wen Wang Christian Nolf 

机构地区：[1]School of Environmental Science,University of Liverpool,Liverpool,United Kingdom [2]Department of Urban Planning and Design,Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University,Suzhou,China

出　　处：《Built Heritage》2019年第4期72-91,共20页建成遗产（英文）

基　　金：This research was supported by the 2019 Suzhou Soft-Science Programme(grant no.SR201927);the Jiangsu Province Program of Science and Technology(grant no.BK20151244).

摘　　要：Since the turn of the century,creative industries have displayed considerable power in transforming the social and economic landscapes of most global metropolises,including such Chinese mega-cities as Beijing and Shanghai.However,the story of creative industries does not end there.Recent studies have focused on the role of creative sector in the countryside.It has been argued that the creative sector can effectively contribute to diver­sifying socio-economic development in rural areas by increasing employment,enhancing the quality of life,and promoting social inclusion and community development.With the aim to chart new paths for China’s rural revitalisa­tion and address the country’s‘three rural issues’(i.e.agriculture,rural areas and farmers),this paper examines the potentials and challenges to developing the creative sector in rural China.It first reviews the academic debate about expanding the development of creative industries from urban to rural areas.Drawing on the research and classifica­tion of creative industries in rural Western Ireland,this study identifies industries characterised by‘content creation and production’and‘creative design services’,which would have potential in rural China.The major impediments to and crucial factors for developing rural creative industries in China are investigated and appraised within the frame­work of‘creative people,creative place,and creative support’.After analysing emerging practices in Jiangsu Province,this paper highlights the potential of abandoned industrial complexes in rural parts of China’s coastal regions,which can act as incubators for creative industries.Those former manufacturing plants are the remains of township-village enterprises(TVEs),which constituted part of China’s flagship policy for rural regeneration in the 1980s.Not only do they have special architectural attributes favourable for creative production,but also represent the socio-economic entity of the village collective and are the carriers of cultural meanings an

关 键 词：cultural and creative industries China rural revitalisation township-village enterprises(TVEs) adaptive reuse industrial heritage 

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