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Museums’ International Collaboration with Case Studies of Cross-border Exhibitions in China and Japan in the 21st Century
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[eng] This thesis aims to analyse the processes of museums’ international collaboration through cross-border exhibitions displayed in China and Japan to understand the mechanisms of collaboration between museums, cultural diplomacy, and its functionality. After theoretically analysing the phenomenon of international exhibitions and the characteristics of the museum systems in China and Japan, four case studies of cross-border exhibitions opened to the public from 2015 to 2021 are examined. The selected case studies mainly focus on the twenty-first century, when vast museums and exhibitions have become essential to their national cultural policies. In the past decades, cross-border exhibitions have attracted the attention of millions of visitors in the analysed societies and provided valuable opportunities for museums to reach wider audiences through exhibitions and improve their global reputation. China and Japan have encountered challenges ranging from exhibition narratives to display requirements in cooperating with foreign museum colleagues from the UK and France. However, the solutions to these challenges and the motivations behind them were different, which became the key to understanding the various cultural policies in these two countries. In this thesis, four cross-border exhibitions between Europe (UK and France) and East Asia, mainly (China and Japan), have been analysed. Each exhibition was open to the public for 71 to 95 days. The display time depended on aspects including the rental cost, the calendar of the touring exhibition, the vulnerability of collections, and the curators’ research interests. Two discussed exhibitions were displayed in China's leading political and economic cities, the National Museum of China in Beijing and the Shanghai Museum. In contrast, the other two were exhibited in Japan at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and the Tokyo National Museum of Nature and Science. The methodology of the thesis has been based on the combination of various procedures, including fieldwork in all four museums in China and Japan, face-to-face interviews with curators and official responses from the museums to the researcher’s questionnaire sent via email. The documentation of the exhibitions, including their catalogues and photographic images, has also been consulted, further enriching the analysis of the exhibitions. Combining the study of the exhibition organisation process and the results of these four cross-border exhibitions, this thesis aims to contribute to understanding the mechanisms of international cooperation and cultural diplomacy between museums.
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TONG, Jinghao. Museums’ International Collaboration with Case Studies of Cross-border Exhibitions in China and Japan in the 21st Century. [consulta: 29 de novembre de 2025]. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/216834]