An Overview of School Education Programmes in Chinese Museums

Authors:
  • SASusan F. Abasa
    Susan F. Abasa
  • WLWeihua Liu
    Weihua Liu
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Abstract
This paper provides an overview of current government policies in relation to museum education programmes, particularly school programmes, in Chinese museums. It also draws on the historiography of early Chinese museums recently published in English to situate these programmes, suggesting that they exist within a tradition of China's earliest use of museums as forms of cultural cosmopolitanism and reforming nationalism. This paper argues that museum education in China is in transition. State-ordered and regulated projects, which legitimize core values of sacrifice and endurance, exist alongside museum-led initiatives, some of which are gradually challenging those orthodoxies.

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