Museum Processes in China - Couverture rigide

Ho, Chui-fun Selina

 
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Synopsis

This monograph presents China's museum culture in its full complexity as processes negotiated and contested by contending forces and diverse actors that exist at different forms of management and levels of governance. From varied perspectives, it conceptualizes the museum discourse in China as a volatile process involving institutional-regulatory changes, the production agencies of museum and processes of museum consumption as practices of appropriation, negotiation or resistance. The monograph emphasizes the roles of museum intermediates and the exhibition approaches and strategies they use. It particularly highlights the contradictory agendas in official narratives, the alternative practices, as well as the limits of interpretative agencies that have been raised among them. It offers an incisive analysis of the public determined by them, and the possibility and efficacy of museum politics generated from the cultural sphere in contemporary China. The biggest strength of this monograph is the presence of the public's voice. My visitor studies indicated that the Chinese publics have evinced a wide spectrum of attitudes to the museum programs and messages. They revealed the public critique towards museums or exhibitions, by including the opposing opinions raised by critical audience and the social actions by activists. Readers can learn whether the efforts masterminded by the museums have been effective or not. In addition, they can learn more about the modes of museum consumption that have been circulated in the region, and broadly in China.

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À propos de l?auteur

Selina Ho Chui-fun is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University of Hong Kong. Her monograph, Museum Processes in China: The Institutional Regulation, Production, and Consumption of Art Museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta Region, was published by Amsterdam University Press in 2020.

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9781041183198: Museum Processes in China

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ISBN 10 :  1041183194 ISBN 13 :  9781041183198
Editeur : Routledge, 2025
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