O'Connor, J.Gu, X.Lim, L.Lee, H.K.2025-12-182025-12-182019Source details - Title: Routledge handbook of creative and cultural industries in Asia, 2019 / Lim, L., Lee, H.K. (ed./s), Ch.12, pp.177-1929781138959927https://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/133194This chapter examines the idea of the ‘creative cluster’, one of China’s key policy models for promoting both the creative city and cultural-creative industries. Many of the claims around creative industries and creative cities in the West were founded on a need to find replacement jobs in a post-industrial economy and to re-think the function of the city as a competitive global entity. In 2005 the Shanghai municipal government adopted the term ‘creative industries’ and positioned the ‘creative cluster’ as the main mechanism whereby these industries might be developed as a part of a global city. Creative clusters depend on shared visions, expectations, and values that are often implicit but very real nonetheless. M50’s emergence stands apart from the more general process of the policy transfer of creative cluster into the Chinese context. As M50 began to grow in reputation artists became aware of their weight within the decision-making process in the old factory.enCopyright 2019 The authorsChinacultural economycreative milieuBook chapter10.4324/9781315660509-13O'Connor, J. [0000-0002-8224-621X]