Going to the People
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11666538 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Pozzi (0000-0002-8085-1563, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-72 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Public Historian (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3433 • E-ISSN: 1533-8576 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/tph.2023.45.1.51 |
| OpenAlex | W4319069383 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Scholarship on museums situated in the People’s Republic of China privileges the analysis of exhibitions over visitor studies. Based on the author’s research on the reception of the Shanghai History Museum’s representation of colonial history, this paper sheds light on the opportunities and difficulties of working with museum audiences in China. The article presents a qualitative analysis of the collected data, showing how visitors personalize and criticize the state-sanctioned anticolonial and nationalist version of Shanghai’s history. It argues that visitor studies are a useful method for examining how museum audiences renegotiate the meaning of exhibitions under an authoritarian regime
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Authoritarianism · China · Colonialism · Democracy · Epistemology · Exhibition · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Nationalism · Political science · Representation (politics · Scholarship · Situated · Sociology · Visitor pattern · Visual arts · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |