A Comparative Analysis on the Relationship Between Artistic Creativity and Career Development in Chinese and Japanese Traditional Performing Arts

Abstract

This research shows how different educational forms such as schooling and apprenticeship are related to the development of artistic creativity from the interdisciplinary perspective based on educational anthropology of performing arts and management studies. This topic has been insufficiently explored by previous studies in both fields. More specifically, by applying the concept of schoolnization, the research compares two contrasting case studies of Chinese Qin opera and Japanese Nohgaku, based on first-hand data acquired from years of ethnographic research, to formulate a hypothesis on the ideal relationship between the enhancement of artistic creativity and process of career development. The hypothesis serves as a practical analytical framework for future research in the field.