In this introduction to this special issue on creative labour in East Asia, we explore how the creative industries discourse, and related debates around creative labour, continue to be haunted by a Eurocentric cum Anglocentric bias. The critical language of this discourse often directs all discussion of “inequality”, “precarity” and “self-exploitation” of creative labour towards a critique of “neoliberalism”, thus running the risk of overlooking different socio-political contexts. We point at the urgency to contextualize and globalize, if not decolonize, creative work studies, including the debates surrounding precarity. This special issue explores the nuanced situations of governance and labour experiences in the cultural economies of East Asia.

在本期有关东亚创意劳动的特刊的引言中，我们探讨了创意产业的话语以及有关创意劳动的相关辩论如何继续受到欧洲中心和英国中心偏见的困扰。这种话语的批判性语言通常将对创造性劳动的“不平等”，“ pre可危”和“自我剥削”的所有讨论引向对“新自由主义”的批评，从而冒着忽视不同社会政治环境的风险。我们指出，迫切需要对创造性工作研究进行情境化和全球化（如果不是非殖民化的话），包括围绕危险性的辩论。本期专刊探讨了东亚文化经济中治理和劳动经验的细微差别。