This special section is to explore several key issues related to the development in three of the biggest East Asian cultural industries, namely in China, Japan, and South Korea. It addresses a few important dimensions of change that merit analysis—the emergence of East Asian cultural industries in terms of growths in scale and exports; the transnationalization of production and distribution; the relaxation of foreign ownership restraints; and changing relations between the cultural industries and the state. The attempt is to conceptualize the relations between the cultural industries and cultural policy; draw insights from critical media studies and cultural policy studies; and explore what it means for policy-makers when culture and creativity move from the margins to the center of economic activity.
引言：東亞的文化產業：政策、戰略、軌跡
本專區探討中國、日本、韓國这三個東亞最大文化產業發展中的一些關鍵問題。本專區著重探討了東亞文化產業的興起中幾個重要方面的變化，即產業規模和出口量的增長、生產和銷售的跨國化、對外資所有權限制的放寬、以及文化產業與國家之間關係的變化。本專區試圖使用批判傳媒研究及文化政策研究的見解來理解文化產業與文化政策之間的關係，並探討文化和創造力由邊緣進入經濟活動的中心這一現象對政策制定者的意義。
Translated from English by Xin Huang