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 gover

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

"From the earliest museums established by Western missionaries in order to implement religious and political power, to the role they have played in the formatio

Chinese Museum Today features a selection of 22 translated articles from three highly influential academic journals in the Chinese museum sector, namely Chinese

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 cen