Chinese opera, a sing-song storytelling art form predominantly associated with rural and urban migrant communities, currently has over 300 regional styles. This paper investigates the intertwined development of opera Shanghai All-female Yueju its main audience, female textile workers their omission in Cultural Creative Industries (CCI) making. Utilising theories ‘selective memory’ ‘strategic fo...

We are delighted to introduce this Special Issue of Sustainability, entitled “The Creative and Cultural Industries: Towards Sustainability Recovery” [...]

The global focus shifts towards sustainable development and makes all the industries to adapt be active in order reduce their negative impact on environmental social environments. main objective of this study is provide a coherent overview current research sustainability creative cultural highlight possible streams for future investigations. This first investigate scientific publications indust...

The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) are increasingly being recognised in South Africa, as other countries, wealth-creating, given appropriate investment, rather than primarily a non-market subsidized sector. However, national innovation policy is still predominantly focused on STEM (science, technology, engineering mathematics) skillsets related product markets. This paper analyses how ...

Service design is considered to be one of the pivotal components in cultural and creative design industries which has a significant impact on consumer perception of innovation. Despite service design’s recognized importance, cultural and creative industries lack a systematic approach to it. Therefore, based on the “Taiwan experience”, this paper proposes a service innovation design model and pr...