Museums in China: The Politics of Representation After Mao

by Marzia Varutti

An examination of museums in China, surveying their development from the nineteenth century, and looking in particular at their incredible recent proliferation.

Museums in China have undergone tremendous transformations since they first appeared in the country in the late nineteenth century. Futuristic, state-of-the-art museums have today become symbols of China's global cultural, economic and technological prominence, and over the last two...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843838885
• ISBN13: 9781843838883
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 203 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.9" x 6.9"