中文摘要：

20世纪80年代到90年代中期，属于西方地理学界对文化产业研究的萌芽阶段，其研究只限于少数实证。20世纪90年代中期以来则是其发展阶段，这一阶段的研究主要涉及文化产业就业的地域特征、文化产业对区域与城市的作用、全球化与文化产业发展、文化产业集聚体／集群实证、文化产业的发展机制、信息技术对文化产业的影响、文化产业管治等七个方面。今后还需展开的研究领域，主要包括：文化产业就业的微观属性，文化产业发行、消费环节，产业集聚体／集群多类型的实证，文化产业低效／无效管治的实证等方面。

英文摘要：

The research on cultural industries in westem geography circles includes two stages which are the infant stage, from 1980s to mid-1990s, and the developing stage, from mid-1990s to present. At the infant stage, the geographical scholars preferred ＂high and new technology＂ to ＂cultural industries＂. Researches on cultural industries just focused on transformation of the Fordist factory into the Post-fordism social factory. At the developing stage, more researches were conducted on ＂cultural industries＂. There are seven aspects which greatly interest western geographical scholars including geographical characters of employment in cultural industries, impacts of cultural industries on regions and cities, globalization and development of cultural industries, cultural production agglomerations or cultural clusters, developing mechanism of cultural industries, impacts of IT on cultural industries and management of cultural industries. Meanwhile, economic geographers played a great role in cultural industry studies in western world and cultural industries including film industry, music industry, and audio-visual industry which became new economic growth sources. The authors point out that although the researches on cultural industries have greatly developed, they are still limited. Therefore, this paper put forward several solutions on this issue. Firstly, as cross-disciplinary studies, the researches on cultural industries should integrate the perspective from cultural and political geography besides economic geography. Secondly, the theoretical study should be enhanced. That means based on the empirical work, geographical theories of cultural industries are necessary to be developed. Thirdly, the researchers should improve the researches in developing countries and regions in order to change the Europe and North America standardized situation. Furthermore, the authors suggest that the future researches should focus on （1） microscopic characteristics of employment in cultural industries, （2） consumpt