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How can the misallocation of resources in the art industry exert "cultural soft power"?

2022-05-20T09:57:35.477Z


"For culture to develop well, it needs experts to lead, and people who really understand and cherish art to lead." In an exclusive interview with "Hong Kong 01" last year, Hu Enwei comprehensively analyzed Hong Kong's transformation from a former cultural leader to a


"For culture to develop well, it needs experts to lead, and people who really understand and cherish art to lead." In an exclusive interview with "Hong Kong 01" last year, Hu Enwei comprehensively analyzed the reasons why Hong Kong has changed from a cultural leader in the past to the tail of today's crane. One is that the leader of Hong Kong’s literary and artistic resources is not a real expert. It is not led by experts like the mainland, and it is not like the United States, where a large number of private funds are invested. “Hong Kong uses public money, and a group of powerful people are the chairman.” These dignitaries have always only understood the blind pursuit of Western standards. As a result, the combination of Chinese and Western has become a side-by-side with the West.


The upstream cultural decision-making lacks the participation of professionals, and the downstream freelance art practitioners are also ignored by the government.

Affected by the new crown virus epidemic, many local performance venues have been "closed" for a long time, and art workers are struggling. The Arts Development Bureau first launched a one-off 5 million "Arts and Culture Support Scheme" in January 2020 for its subsidizing groups to apply. It can be seen that it is obviously inclined to support art institutions rather than art creators.

Whether it can successfully create a new cultural card of "Hong Kong, China" depends on how the Hong Kong government will break the situation in the future and truly allow Hong Kong to integrate with China and foreign countries.

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The misallocation of resources in the entire industry is ultimately due to the fact that the SAR government has always ignored the public attributes of "cultural soft power" and its significance in shaping social value, so it allows the commercial competition model to dominate the development of literature and art, making it a luxury for the upper class. .

This kind of cultural orientation has a long history. It is mainly influenced by the governance model that did not pay attention to sustainable development and blindly pursued economic supremacy during the British colonial period of Hong Kong. As a result, Hong Kong has always used economy, prosperity, globalization, etc. as indicators of social progress. , ignoring the development of culture and art, gradually losing the cultural subjectivity exclusive to "Hong Kong, China"...

For details, please read the 317th issue of "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly Newsletter (May 16, 2022) "

Essential Cultural Soft Power Building to Create "Hong Kong, China" Cultural Home

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