Cultural Policy and the Development of Local Cultures in Hong Kong

Abstract

Summary: This book offers insights into the exciting dynamics permeating creative arts education in the Greater China region, focusing on the challenges of forging a future that would not reject, but be enriched by its Confucian and colonial past. Today's 'Greater China' - comprising China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan - has grown into a vibrant and rapidly transforming region characterized by rich historical legacies, enormous dynamism and exciting cultural metamorphosis. Concomitant with the economic rise of China and widespread calls for more 'creative' and 'liberal' education, the educational and cultural sectors in the region have witnessed significant reforms in recent years. Other factors that will influence the future of arts education are the emergence of a 'new' awareness of Chinese cultural values and the uniqueness of being Chinese. Creative arts, education, and culture in global perspective -- National acts for transmission of Chinese culture and heritage in arts education -- Cultural policy and the development of local cultures in Hong Kong -- Aesthetic creativity: bridging arts, culture, and education -- Theoretical foundation for spirituality- oriented holistic art education: integration of Eastern and Western aesthetics -- The new awareness of canto-jazz and the jazz arrangement project -- Popular visual culture in art education: a group creativity perspective -- Music composition education in Hong Kong -- Transmission of Xibo music cultures in Northeast China: development of school-based curriculum -- Teaching traditional music in Mainland China -- Transmission and transformation of Cantonese opera on Hong Kong: from school education to professional training -- Sun Tzu's the Art of War for choral leadership -- Transmission and education of Hakka folk songs in Hong Kong: distinctiveness and commonality in local, national, and global contexts -- Living tradtion: educational issues and practices of Indigenous art in Taiwan -- Creative music cultures through vernacular songs for education by different generations of Hong Kong composer-educators -- Condensation of ritual symbolism and visual culture: from Chinese Liqi to contemporary art expressions -- The Indigenous culture of Chaozhou Xianshi music and Diaspora musicians in Hong Kong.