The Museum in Asia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cai, Yunci

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Museum in Asia advances understanding of the flourishing museum landscape in the region by offering a variety of conceptual tools and frameworks through which museum development can be analysed and understood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040304297
• Artikelnr.: 72593004

Autorenporträt

Yunci Cai is Associate Professor of Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. She has research interests in cultural politics and museologies in and out of Asia. Her monograph Staging Indigenous Heritage: Instrumentalisation, Brokerage and Representation in Malaysia (Routledge 2020) explores the cultural politics of four Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures; Series Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of
Contributors; 1. A Manifesto for Museums in Asia; Section A: Reconsidering
Knowledge Structures - 2. Numinous Objects and Their (Re)Contextualisation
in Local Museologies; 3. Religion on Display: A Comparative Study of the
Museum of World Religions and Exhibition Spaces in Temples in Taiwan; 4.
Tracing the Lineage of Linear Exhibition Narratives in Chinese Museology;
Section B: Rethinking Colonialism - 5. Defining, Designating and Ruling the
Other in the Spaces of the Raffles Museum, Singapore, 1823 - 1960; 6.
'Unity in Diversity': Museums and Representation in Myanmar; 7. Swapping
Time between Contemporary Ainu and Kaitaku Settler Colonial History;
Section C: Localising Museums -- 8. Transforming Chemde Museum: Monastic
Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh; 9.
Community-based Museums in Thailand and their Indigenous Curatorial
Practices; 10. Curating the Dead: A Case Study of Localising Strategies in
a Private Museum in Vietnam; 11. Vaacha: Preservation and Erasure in an
Indigenous Museum; Section D: Negotiating Politics - 12. The Impact of
India's Partition on Museums of the Punjab; 13. Exhibition Diplomacy: The
Chinese Experience; 14. Jianchuan Museum Complex: Ethics and Politics in
China's Private Museum Practice; 15. Rethinking Heritage Diplomacy on the
Maritime Silk Road; 16. Museums as Sites of Indigenous Revitalisation:
Dialogues between National Museums, Indigenous Artisans, and Indigenous
Communities in Taiwan; Section E: Embracing Contemporaneity - 17.
Intersections between Private Lives, Public Housing, and National
Narratives: Community Museums in Hong Kong and Singapore; 18. A Systematic
View on Digital Museum Practices with Activity Theory: Exploring the
Contradictions That Museum Practitioners Experience in the Republic of
Korea; 19. From Digitisation to Digital Repatriation: A Case Study of
International Dunhuang Project; 20. Post-disaster Practices in Japanese
Museums after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami; Index.