Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China

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The last three decades have seen a massive expansion of China's visual culture industries, from architecture and graphic design to fine art and fashion. New ideologies of creativity and creative practices have reshaped the training of a new generation of art school graduates. Creativity Class is the first book to explore how Chinese art students de

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"A fascinating study." * Choice *
"Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China places a valuable and hitherto largely absent focus on art education as a vector of cultural creativity in contemporary China. . . . Convincing and well supported by primary research."---Paul Gladston, China Review International
"Chumleys careful observation and analyses of art test fever reveal the contradiction between the values reproduced through the exam system and the values emphasized by the Chinese educational and economic reforms."---Cong Zhang, Vanessa L. Fong, Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Author Bio

Lily Chumley is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University.