On the Difference between Creative Industry and Cultural Industry
Cultural industry is modern while creative industry is postmodern. Cultural industry belongs to industrial economy and creative industry belongs to knowledge economy. Cultural industry emerged under global standardization whereas creative industry emerged under global diversification. The production and marketing of cultural industry is offline while that of creative industry is online. Cultural industry on machine replication whereas creative industry on digital replication. The production of cultural industry is centralized and that of creative industry is decentralized. Cultural industry is based on mass consumption while creative industry on group consumption. Cultural industry is able to develop spontaneously whereas creative industry needs support and advocating. In order to develop Chinese cultural and creative industries,we should follow a development path of integrated modernization.