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Museum Development in China

Understanding the Building Boom

von: Gail Dexter Lord, Guan Qiang, An Laishun, Javier Jimenez
52,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	15.06.2019
ISBN/EAN:	9781538109984
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	160

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The growth of the number and scale of Chinese museums in the 21st century, from about 1,400 at the turn of the century to over 5,000 to date, reflects the government’s Museum Development Plan for 2011-2020 to open one museum per 250,000 inhabitants, with the goal of attracting one billion visitors at the end of the decade. It is not just the numbers but the speed of development of Chinese museums that takes our breath away—with nearly one new museum per day being opened or expanded in this huge country. What are the motivations for the rapid development of museums in China? How is the public responding? Who pays for these museums and how? What has been the impact of china’s urbanization? How do Chinese museums balance education, scientific research, social cohesion, cultural diplomacy and tourism both internal and external? These are issues that continue to be discussed and debated among western museum professionals in the context of our 200-year history of modern museology. How are these debates evolving in China, which has its own history of museology over that same period from colonialism to communism and from isolation to opening up to the world? This book explores these issues while introducing English-language readers to a sample of the new Chinese museums in case studies and photographs. To accomplish this goal, Lord Cultural Associates partnered with the Chinese Museums Association who engaged leading Chinese museologists, museum directors, academics and architects to provide chapters and case studies on the history of museums in China, on evolving national museum policies, museum exhibitions and cultural diplomacy, the role of private museums, and the impact of museums on society. The four sections of this book build our knowledge of the roles of China’s museums through social and political changes, the systems of governance, the complex relationships between private and public sectors and many levels of government. Section One places the current building boom in context. Section Two addresses how China’s rapid urbanization has fueled the museum building boom, framed it, formed it and in some cases financed it. Section Three analyzes how Chinese exhibitions are tools for cultural diplomacy and key elements of soft power The six case studies in Section Four provide perspectives on the diversity of innovative approaches in the sector. 
Museum Development in China 
--- a beautiful, full-color book --- is the product of an international collaboration to discover how much East and West can learn from each other about museum roles, our publics, how we preserve, what we conserve, and our future sustainability—even as we marvel at the accomplishments of China’s museum building boom.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

Growth of Chinese museums in the 21st century reflects the government’s Museum Development Plan for 2011-2020 to open one museum per 250,000 people, with the goal of attracting one billion visitors. This book builds our knowledge of the roles of China’s museums through social and political changes, governance, and the private and public sectors.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface - The Chinese Museum Boom in Broad Strokes Guan Qiang Introduction- Understanding China’s Museum Boom Gail Lord 
Part 1: China’s Museum Boom in Context
 1.1 Lively Places Throbbing With Life An Laishun 1.2 A Global Perspective on Museum Growth Cycles Javier Jimenez and Gail Lord 1.3 A Brief History of Chineses Museums to 1949 Duan Yong 1.4 A Brief History of Chinese Museums 1949-1995 Song Xiangguang 1.5 The Musealization of China Sofia Bollo and Yu Zhang 1.6 The Dichotomy of Relic Preservation Policies and the Social Role of Museums Han Yong 
Part 2: Museum Building in China’s New Urban Culture
 2.1 The Urban Boom Meets Museums Doug Saunders 2.2 A Museum Born of Real Estate Gao Peng 2.3 From Desification to Place-making in Urban Planning Phil Enquist 2.4 Character Building and Genius Loci in Museum Arhitecture He Jingtang 2.5 Creating Bridges Between Contemporary Art and Life Rebecca Catching 
Part 3: Opening Up to the World
 3.1 Cultural Diplomacy and Soft Power An Laishun 3.2 Exhibitions as Tools of Diplomacy Zhou Ming 3.3 Navigating Cross-cultural Collaborations—a Curatorial Perspective Chen Shen 3.4 Changing Concepts and Strategies for Public Engagement Tomislav Sola 3.5 From Hermetic and Inward Looking to Outward Reaching and International Museums Tian Kai 3.6 The V&A’s Partnership with the Design Society in Shenzhen: An Ongoing Legacy of Cultural Diplomacy Tim Reeve 
Part 4: Case Studies in Innovation
 4.1 Shanghai Museum: “A History of the World in 100 Objects”—Growing a Capacity for Institutional Change Yang Zhigang 4.2 Guangdong Museum: The Dawn of the Smart Museum Wei Jun 4.3 Palace Museum: Museum Fever—Keeping Up With Public Demands for New Experiences Shan Jixiang 4.4 Natural History Museums: Underappreciated, Yet Wildly Popular Jian Guan 4.5 Suzhou Musuem: Harnessing the Power of the People, Products and Place Chen Ruijin 4.6 Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Museum: Embers of Memory Zhu Pei Conclusion: Toward a Sustainable Future: “Feeling the Stones as We Cross the River” Gail Lord, Javier Jimenez and Rebecca Catching

Autorenportrait

Gail Lord 
is one of the world’s foremost museum, gallery, and cultural planners. Co-founder and President of Lord Cultural Resources, her clients include the Nanjing Museum, Beijing Association of Science and Technology, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Louvre, Tate Modern, and the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, just to name a few. She is an art critic, feature writer, frequent commentator, public speaker, and the co-author of several books including 
Cities, Museums, and Soft Power 
and 
Manual of Strategic Planning for Cultural Organizations
. Gail is a Member of the Order of Canada and an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in the French Ministry of Culture. In 2016, she was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters, by McMaster University.
 
 
Guan Qiang
 is currently Deputy Administrator of the National Cultural Heritage Administration of China, in charge of Chinese Museums Association and ICOM China. He has been working in the field of archaeological research, exhibition curating, cultural heritage protection and museum management over the past 30 years and including extensive experience at China’s renowned Palace Museum. 
 
 
An Laishun
 holds Ph.D. in Chinese history and Masters in museology. He is the Vice President of the International Council of Museums, Vice President and Secretary General of the Chinese Museums Association. For 34 years, Dr. An has served the museum sector in various positions at the national, regional and international levels. Working closely with colleagues around the world, he has concentrated his efforts on increasing regional and international cooperation between museums by contributing to the success of a number of programs and projects, and on internationalizing Chinese museums.
 
 
Javier Jimenez
 is a museum and cultural planner with project experience in more than 20 countries. Since joining Lord Cultural Resources in 2008, Javier has been involved in consulting projects for renowned institutions including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the King Abdulaziz Center in Saudi Arabia, the Ayala Museum, the Nanjing Museum, and the V&A Museum in London. Javier collaborates regularly with the academic sector. He is an invited professor at the Masters of Cultural Diplomacy from the Universittá Catolica di Roma and has delivered speeches and training sessions for the Chinese Museum Association, ICOM, CAMOC, and UNESCO.