1st Edition

Museum Processes in China The Institutional Regulation, Production and Consumption of the Art Museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta Region

By Chui-fun Selina Ho Copyright 2020
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

This book challenges the museum enterprise in China as a state monopoly and considers it as a new cultural agency that has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Following a constructive and multi-perspectival approach, it discusses the roles of political and cultural-economic agents, museum intermediaries, and museum publics in the interlinked processes of regulation, cultural production and... Read more
Acknowledgements, Note on Romanization List of figures, tables and illustrations 1. Introduction, 2. Revisiting the historical trajectories of modern art museums in China, 3. He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, 4. Times Museum in Guangzhou, 5. Hong Kong Museum of Art in Hong Kong, 6. Conclusion, Bibliograghies, Index

Biography

Ho Chui-fun, Selina is Assistant Professor and Programme Director of MA in Curating and Art History at the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries, Lingnan University. She is the author of Museum Processes in China published by Amsterdam University Press in 2020.