Michael Keane

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Dr Michael Keane’s research interests include creative industries and innovation in China; creative clusters in China and East Asia; audio-visual industry policy and development in China, South Korea, and Taiwan; and television formats in Asia. He is coordinator (with Jo Tacchi) of Asian Creative Transformations module in CCI (from June 2010). He is the author of Created in China: the Great New Leap Forward (2007), a study of China’s creative economy, and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture. His forthcoming sole authored books are Governance, Human Capital and Investment in China's Creative Clusters (Routledge) and In Creativity There is No East or West (Bloomsbury Academic) He is co-author of New Television, Globalization and the East Asian Cultural Imagination (with Anthony Fung and Albert Moran HKU Press 2007), and co-editor of Cultural Adaptation (with Albert Moran Routledge 2010) and TV Drama in China (2008) (with Ying Zhu and Ruoyun Bai HKU Press)