Toward a Balance between Culture and Economy: A Perspective of the Relaying from Cultural and Creative Industry Policies to Cultural and Creative Industry Development Law in Taiwan

Abstract

The purpose of this dissertation is to discover how the Cultural and Creative Industries policy in Taiwan prioritizes its mentioned stakeholders as it utilizes CCI to “nourish local culture through improving economy” Also by analyzing the CCI policy discourse this dissertation seeks to understand what the current positioning of the recently established Ministry of Culture is as it claimed to be a central agency made to help define Taiwanese culture and its cultural value To comb out the logic of how the central government conceptualize CCI the research is conducted by using Critical Discourse Analysis on four CCI policy and law documentations published by ministry-level or equivalent government agencies under the instruction from the Executive Yuan (the Cabinet of Taiwan) The three policy documentations are namely (1) Challenge 2008 – National Development Plan (2002) (2) White Paper on Cultural Policy (2004) and (3) Creative Taiwan – CCI Development Action Plan (2009); and also the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Law (2010) as the Law itself serves as a legislative standard and foundation to both the government and actual stakeholders These are examined to see if Taiwan’s CCI development process is conducted with a “cultural-oriented” approach as how the central government have claimed it as and if negative sets implications in how may the approach be reoriented towards a balance between culture and economy

Date of Award	2014 Jan 13
Original language	English
Supervisor	Hsiao-Ling Chung (Supervisor)