Asian creativity, chapter one: Creativity across three Chinese societies

This commentary looks at the contributions and future research implications of the four articles in this Special Issue of Thinking Skills and Creativity to the fields of creativity and creativity education, both in culture-specific and culture-general terms. The articles included in this Special Issue draw attention to issues of development, implementation, and assessment of creativity and creativity education programs in three distinct Chinese societies: China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. They also point to broader academic trends regarding Chinese and Asian creativity.

Research highlights▶ Asian creativity and Chinese creativity issues are a location of intense and important academic interest. ▶ Development, training, implementation and assessment of education programs for teaching creativity all need further research. ▶ Research should consider both culture-general and culture-specific aspects of creativity education.