The Business of Culture - 9780774827812

The Business of Culture\nby Christopher Rea\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Christopher Rea\nTitle: The Business of Culture\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of art\nPublisher: University of British Columbia Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9780774827812\nISBN-10: 0774827815\nRRP: \u00A327.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFrom the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century, changing technologies and growing transregional ties provided unprecedented opportunities for the entrepreneurially minded in China and Southeast Asia. The Business of Culture examines the rise of Chinese cultural entrepreneurs, businesspeople who risked financial well-being and reputation by investing in multiple cultural enterprises in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Ri.