Museum Processes in China (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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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.