TY - JOUR
T1 - Moguls of the Chinese cinema
T2 - The story of the Shaw brothers in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, 1924-2002
AU - Chung, Stephanie Po Yin
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - The history of the Shaw enterprise in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, is a history of Chinese cinema in a century of business evolution. The Shaw industrial model of "vertical integration", which combines production, distribution with exhibition, keeps pace with the technological developments and manages to expand its retail outlets from the stage to cinema, television, DVD and the Internet. Although the Shaw organization embraces a western industrial model to expand its business, it retains the very nature of a traditional Chinese family business. The issues surrounding the cultural and institutional evolution of the Shaw enterprise over the past 80 years are profound indications of its time.
AB - The history of the Shaw enterprise in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore, is a history of Chinese cinema in a century of business evolution. The Shaw industrial model of "vertical integration", which combines production, distribution with exhibition, keeps pace with the technological developments and manages to expand its retail outlets from the stage to cinema, television, DVD and the Internet. Although the Shaw organization embraces a western industrial model to expand its business, it retains the very nature of a traditional Chinese family business. The issues surrounding the cultural and institutional evolution of the Shaw enterprise over the past 80 years are profound indications of its time.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0026749X06002423
DO - 10.1017/S0026749X06002423
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:34548554280
SN - 0026-749X
VL - 41
SP - 665
EP - 682
JO - Modern Asian Studies
JF - Modern Asian Studies
IS - 4
ER -