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

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 consumption, and the issues of identity and representation faced by the art museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta Region. It broadly traces the art museum from its origin as a tool of nationalism and adoption as a vehicle of modernization in both nationalist and early communist periods, until its role in the present, as it reflects the contested and alternative representations, diverse publics, and fissured identities of the post-economic reform period of China.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Chui-fun Selina Ho
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.12.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781041183198
• ISBN: 978-1-041-18319-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Weight: 480 g
• Series: Asian Visual Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / General, ART / Museum Studies, HISTORY / Asia / China, Politics & government, Politics and government, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, museum studies;art and cultural studies;china studies