China in Australasia
eBook - ePub

China in Australasia

Cultural Diplomacy and Chinese Arts since the Cold War

  1. 190 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

China in Australasia

Cultural Diplomacy and Chinese Arts since the Cold War

About this book

Drawing on expertise in art history, exhibition studies and cultural studies as well as politics and international relations, China in Australasia presents significant new perspectives on the role of art in the cultural diplomacy of the People's Republic of China.

The book tells the forgotten story of the loan, exchange, and gifting of Chinese art, museum exhibitions—and the use of Chinese arts more broadly—in growing diplomatic relations with Australia and New Zealand, from 1949 to the present day. Its scope includes pre-modern, modern and contemporary sculpture, painting and peasant art, as well as ancient artefacts, performance arts and gardens. In considering the geopolitical connections opened by the arts, this book presents new insights into some of the ways in which China, often in conjunction with local supporters, sought to present itself to the people of Australia and New Zealand. It also considers how, for their part, New Zealanders and Australians worked to expand understandings of their powerful northern neighbour within changing political contexts.

The first of its kind, this book-length interdisciplinary study of Chinese soft diplomacy in Australasia will be invaluable to students and scholars of Chinese studies, cultural diplomacy, museum studies and art history.

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Yes, you can access China in Australasia by James Beattie, Richard Bullen, Maria Galikowski, James Beattie,Richard Bullen,Maria Galikowski in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & History of Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
eBook ISBN
9781351203456
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of contributors
  10. List of figures
  11. Foreword
  12. 1 China and the art of cultural diplomacy
  13. 2 Better late than never: New Zealand and China, 1949–2016
  14. 3 From friendship to fear? Australia–China relations, 1950s–2000s
  15. 4 Embracing friendship through gift and exchange: Rewi Alley and the art of museum diplomacy in Cold War China and New Zealand
  16. 5 Melbourne mandarins: ‘Modern Chinese Painters’, 1974
  17. 6 ‘Imparting experience’: the Huxian peasant painting tour in New Zealand and Australia
  18. 7 Artistic activism, cultural diplomacy and Aotearoa New Zealand
  19. 8 Displaced gardens as sites of ‘Chineseness’: design and function
  20. 9 White Rabbit, contemporary Chinese arts and soft power in Sydney’s Chippendale
  21. 10 Soft power and the role of art in the development of Taiwan–mainland China relations
  22. Index