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The course looks at how art markets function in the Asian region nowadays. We will focus in particular on the specific socio-cultural relations linking creativity and aesthetics with business, organizations, people, politics, and money in countries in Asia, and how these factors combined affect their influences in the global art scene. It is taught primarily by lectures and class work, and is attentive to art worlds in China, South Korea, Hong Kong, India, Thailand, and Japan, comparing what we find there with literature on art markets in Europe and the United States. It thus looks at how local/regional variations can be found in the organization and practices of different art worlds in the Asian region, and tries to explain why they exist. In the long-term, the course serves as a foundation for those who wish to pursue a career in art by familiarising them with the special dynamics of art worlds, especially of the emerging art markets of Asia, alerting them especially to the challenges of managing creative people, artworks, and their accompanying cultural and political ideologies.