Jane Zheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3675246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane Zheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane |
| FAMILY NAME | Zheng |
| SIGNATURE | ZHENG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8791-5734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Modeling the Creative Milieu of Cosmopolitan Cities
This research paper gleans insights from significant historical cases to unravel the essence of a ‘creative milieu.’ Our study scrutinizes the factors that shaped artists’ settlement patterns in Shanghai during the Republican era (1912–1948) by constructing both global and local spatial regression models across three pivotal years, thus unveiling seven distinct variable categories. We argue that paramount among these attributes are individual art…
Territorializing the Pearl River Delta
Rethinking the growth machine logic in cultural development
Using urban sculpture planning in Shanghai as a case study, this article aims to understand the process of planning cultural projects in China and to evaluate the applicability of the growth machine model to the social dynamics underlying cultural development in Chinese cities. Based on interviews with sculpture planning officers in 10 districts and the municipality, as well as 56 companies that have been involved in sculpture projects in Shangha…
‘Mapping the Most Influential Art Districts in Shanghai (1912-1948) through Clustering Analysis’
This research proposes a new method to map and classify art clusters, combining multiple dimensions of spatial and social network analyses. This method innovatively blends a historic GIS approach, spatial statistics and qualitative data analysis, and experiments with the Republican-period of Shanghai art world, known as the golden age of art and culture in Shanghai. The outcome is the identification of 11 major art clusters in eight selected year…
Rediscovering Shanghai modern
Republican Shanghai was a renowned art capital. This article is based on a large-scale digital mapping project of the residential locations of 1,349 Shanghai artists. We analysed the transformative spatial distribution patterns of artists in relation to the city's social and urban conditions, and developed an artists’ habitation approach to elucidating the issues of Republican-period Shanghai urban and art history from the perspective of Chinese …
Structuring Artistic Creativity for the Production of a ‘ Creative City ’
This article explores the relationship between institutional environments and individual artists’ artistic creativity to provide an understanding of the ‘creative city’, using urban sculpture planning in Shanghai as a case study. I argue that political censorship alone will not stifle artist's creativity: when authoritarian power interacts with elite social networks and permits a certain form of market economy, artistic creativity becomes concent…
The Rational Planning Approach in Public Art Production
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for public art plan quality evaluation and critically examines its limitations. The argument is twofold. First, the proposed framework embodies a rational planning approach to public art planning, which caters to both traditional and utilitarian types of public art, and advocates creating an environment conducive to social practice art. This framework largely applies to countries with strong rational pl…
Producing Chinese Urban Landscapes of Public Art
This article uses an “urban landscapes” perspective to examine the urban sculpture scene and its production system in Shanghai. It reviews both the national urban sculpture discourse and urban sculpture planning practices since 1949, and then focuses on Shanghai specifically. It examines three major stakeholders in urban sculpture development and their interactions. The main argument is that Shanghai's urban sculpture scene has evolved due to the…
Contextualizing public art production in China
Toward a new concept of the “cultural elite state”
The emergence of an attractive public art scene in urban public areas (termed urban sculpture in the Chinese context) is a recent phenomenon in Shanghai. The role of the local state in urban sculpture planning and development has not been critically examined. This article proposes a model entitled "cultural elite state" to conceptualize the characteristics of urban sculpture authority. The main argument is that the cultural capital held by indivi…
The impact of ‘creative industry clusters’ on cultural and creative industry development in Shanghai
A property-led approach to cluster development
This article assesses inter-company networks based on a type of urban area labelled as a ‘creative industry cluster’ (CCJQ) and explores the interaction between CCJQs and creative industry networks. With the use of questionnaire surveys and interviews, Shanghai's property-led clusters are found to contain inter-company networks; however, most linkages are part of companies' own inter-group networks. Thus, individual companies - not clusters - dri…
Creating urban images through global flows
Creative Industry Clusters’ and the ‘Entrepreneurial City’ of Shanghai
This article evaluates the impact of ‘creative industry clusters’ on urban entrepreneurialism in Shanghai. It aims to introduce the concept of ‘creative industry clusters’ into the discussion of the ‘entrepreneurial city’ in China by testing two main arguments regarding the role of creative industry clusters, and to develop the concept of entrepreneurial city in China. The major argument is that, although these clusters are playing an important r…
The “Entrepreneurial State” in “Creative Industry Cluster” Development in Shanghai
Literature on China’s urban development discusses the nature and role of the local state. A set of concepts have been proposed, such as the “entrepreneurial state” (ES) and “local developmental state,” and an ongoing debate attempts to ascertain whether the state is “entrepreneurial” in nature. This article uses a newly emerged urban phenomenon, chuangyi chanye jiju qu (CCJQs) or “creative industry clusters,” in which the central government is no…
Crossing National Boundaries and Cultural Adaptation
Private Tutorial Art Schools in the Shanghai Market Economy
Drawing on school archives and other primary sources, this article looks at a category of art schools in early twentieth-century Shanghai that has long been ignored in modern Chinese art history studies, namely the early private tutorial art schools. It focuses on the early history of the Shanghai Art School ( Shanghai meizhuan ) as a typical case. It argues that, in contrast to government schools, which represented national ideals and were invol…
Creative Industry Clusters’ and the ‘Entrepreneurial City’ of Shanghai
This article evaluates the impact of ‘creative industry clusters’ on urban entrepreneurialism in Shanghai. It aims to introduce the concept of ‘creative industry clusters’ into the discussion of the ‘entrepreneurial city’ in China by testing two main arguments regarding the role of creative industry clusters, and to develop the concept of entrepreneurial city in China. The major argument is that, although these clusters are playing an important r…
The “Entrepreneurial State” in “Creative Industry Cluster” Development in Shanghai
Literature on China’s urban development discusses the nature and role of the local state. A set of concepts have been proposed, such as the “entrepreneurial state” (ES) and “local developmental state,” and an ongoing debate attempts to ascertain whether the state is “entrepreneurial” in nature. This article uses a newly emerged urban phenomenon, chuangyi chanye jiju qu (CCJQs) or “creative industry clusters,” in which the central government is no…
Contextualizing public art production in China
Toward a new concept of the “cultural elite state”
The emergence of an attractive public art scene in urban public areas (termed urban sculpture in the Chinese context) is a recent phenomenon in Shanghai. The role of the local state in urban sculpture planning and development has not been critically examined. This article proposes a model entitled "cultural elite state" to conceptualize the characteristics of urban sculpture authority. The main argument is that the cultural capital held by indivi…
The Rational Planning Approach in Public Art Production
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for public art plan quality evaluation and critically examines its limitations. The argument is twofold. First, the proposed framework embodies a rational planning approach to public art planning, which caters to both traditional and utilitarian types of public art, and advocates creating an environment conducive to social practice art. This framework largely applies to countries with strong rational pl…
Private Tutorial Art Schools in the Shanghai Market Economy
Drawing on school archives and other primary sources, this article looks at a category of art schools in early twentieth-century Shanghai that has long been ignored in modern Chinese art history studies, namely the early private tutorial art schools. It focuses on the early history of the Shanghai Art School ( Shanghai meizhuan ) as a typical case. It argues that, in contrast to government schools, which represented national ideals and were invol…
Rethinking the growth machine logic in cultural development
Using urban sculpture planning in Shanghai as a case study, this article aims to understand the process of planning cultural projects in China and to evaluate the applicability of the growth machine model to the social dynamics underlying cultural development in Chinese cities. Based on interviews with sculpture planning officers in 10 districts and the municipality, as well as 56 companies that have been involved in sculpture projects in Shangha…
Rediscovering Shanghai modern
Republican Shanghai was a renowned art capital. This article is based on a large-scale digital mapping project of the residential locations of 1,349 Shanghai artists. We analysed the transformative spatial distribution patterns of artists in relation to the city's social and urban conditions, and developed an artists’ habitation approach to elucidating the issues of Republican-period Shanghai urban and art history from the perspective of Chinese …
Structuring Artistic Creativity for the Production of a ‘ Creative City ’
This article explores the relationship between institutional environments and individual artists’ artistic creativity to provide an understanding of the ‘creative city’, using urban sculpture planning in Shanghai as a case study. I argue that political censorship alone will not stifle artist's creativity: when authoritarian power interacts with elite social networks and permits a certain form of market economy, artistic creativity becomes concent…
Crossing National Boundaries and Cultural Adaptation
Private Tutorial Art Schools in the Shanghai Market Economy
Drawing on school archives and other primary sources, this article looks at a category of art schools in early twentieth-century Shanghai that has long been ignored in modern Chinese art history studies, namely the early private tutorial art schools. It focuses on the early history of the Shanghai Art School ( Shanghai meizhuan ) as a typical case. It argues that, in contrast to government schools, which represented national ideals and were invol…
The “Entrepreneurial State” in “Creative Industry Cluster” Development in Shanghai
Literature on China’s urban development discusses the nature and role of the local state. A set of concepts have been proposed, such as the “entrepreneurial state” (ES) and “local developmental state,” and an ongoing debate attempts to ascertain whether the state is “entrepreneurial” in nature. This article uses a newly emerged urban phenomenon, chuangyi chanye jiju qu (CCJQs) or “creative industry clusters,” in which the central government is no…
Creative Industry Clusters’ and the ‘Entrepreneurial City’ of Shanghai
This article evaluates the impact of ‘creative industry clusters’ on urban entrepreneurialism in Shanghai. It aims to introduce the concept of ‘creative industry clusters’ into the discussion of the ‘entrepreneurial city’ in China by testing two main arguments regarding the role of creative industry clusters, and to develop the concept of entrepreneurial city in China. The major argument is that, although these clusters are playing an important r…
A property-led approach to cluster development
This article assesses inter-company networks based on a type of urban area labelled as a ‘creative industry cluster’ (CCJQ) and explores the interaction between CCJQs and creative industry networks. With the use of questionnaire surveys and interviews, Shanghai's property-led clusters are found to contain inter-company networks; however, most linkages are part of companies' own inter-group networks. Thus, individual companies - not clusters - dri…
Creating urban images through global flows
The impact of ‘creative industry clusters’ on cultural and creative industry development in Shanghai
Toward a new concept of the “cultural elite state”
The emergence of an attractive public art scene in urban public areas (termed urban sculpture in the Chinese context) is a recent phenomenon in Shanghai. The role of the local state in urban sculpture planning and development has not been critically examined. This article proposes a model entitled "cultural elite state" to conceptualize the characteristics of urban sculpture authority. The main argument is that the cultural capital held by indivi…
Contextualizing public art production in China
Producing Chinese Urban Landscapes of Public Art
This article uses an “urban landscapes” perspective to examine the urban sculpture scene and its production system in Shanghai. It reviews both the national urban sculpture discourse and urban sculpture planning practices since 1949, and then focuses on Shanghai specifically. It examines three major stakeholders in urban sculpture development and their interactions. The main argument is that Shanghai's urban sculpture scene has evolved due to the…
The Rational Planning Approach in Public Art Production
This paper proposes a theoretical framework for public art plan quality evaluation and critically examines its limitations. The argument is twofold. First, the proposed framework embodies a rational planning approach to public art planning, which caters to both traditional and utilitarian types of public art, and advocates creating an environment conducive to social practice art. This framework largely applies to countries with strong rational pl…
Structuring Artistic Creativity for the Production of a ‘ Creative City ’
This article explores the relationship between institutional environments and individual artists’ artistic creativity to provide an understanding of the ‘creative city’, using urban sculpture planning in Shanghai as a case study. I argue that political censorship alone will not stifle artist's creativity: when authoritarian power interacts with elite social networks and permits a certain form of market economy, artistic creativity becomes concent…
‘Mapping the Most Influential Art Districts in Shanghai (1912-1948) through Clustering Analysis’
This research proposes a new method to map and classify art clusters, combining multiple dimensions of spatial and social network analyses. This method innovatively blends a historic GIS approach, spatial statistics and qualitative data analysis, and experiments with the Republican-period of Shanghai art world, known as the golden age of art and culture in Shanghai. The outcome is the identification of 11 major art clusters in eight selected year…
Rediscovering Shanghai modern
Republican Shanghai was a renowned art capital. This article is based on a large-scale digital mapping project of the residential locations of 1,349 Shanghai artists. We analysed the transformative spatial distribution patterns of artists in relation to the city's social and urban conditions, and developed an artists’ habitation approach to elucidating the issues of Republican-period Shanghai urban and art history from the perspective of Chinese …
Rethinking the growth machine logic in cultural development
Using urban sculpture planning in Shanghai as a case study, this article aims to understand the process of planning cultural projects in China and to evaluate the applicability of the growth machine model to the social dynamics underlying cultural development in Chinese cities. Based on interviews with sculpture planning officers in 10 districts and the municipality, as well as 56 companies that have been involved in sculpture projects in Shangha…
Modeling the Creative Milieu of Cosmopolitan Cities
This research paper gleans insights from significant historical cases to unravel the essence of a ‘creative milieu.’ Our study scrutinizes the factors that shaped artists’ settlement patterns in Shanghai during the Republican era (1912–1948) by constructing both global and local spatial regression models across three pivotal years, thus unveiling seven distinct variable categories. We argue that paramount among these attributes are individual art…
Territorializing the Pearl River Delta
Cultural Industries and Urban Development (15 works) · Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Economics (10 works) · China (9 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Economic geography (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (7 works)