A01=Chui-fun Selina Ho
art and cultural studies
art museum regulation in Pearl River Delta
art sector governance
Author_Chui-fun Selina Ho
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Category=JP
china studies
cultural policy studies
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identity formation theory
institutional analysis
museum audience research
museum studies
post-reform China society
Product details
- ISBN 9781041183198
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
