Museum Representations of Maoist China

Amy Jane Barnes is a Research Associate in the School of Management at the University of Leicester, UK and Honorary Visiting Fellow in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, UK.

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Imagining China: The Birth and Consolidation of British Visions of China; Chapter 3 East–West Cultural Revolutions, 1966–1969; Chapter 4 East–West Rapprochement, 1970–1976; Chapter 5 Peasant Paintings from Hu County; Chapter 6 Revision and Reform: Retrospective Appraisals of the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 7 After Tiananmen; Chapter 8 Human Rights and Bragging Rights: Images of China from the Turn of the Millennium to the Beijing Games; Chapter 9 Exhibiting the Cultural Revolution; Chapter 10 Conclusion; Epilogue;

’This book brings together significant first-hand research that highlights a specific and unique period of collecting along with a highly significant political moment of history in China. It brings out debates about collecting practices, curatorship and British China hands in an intelligent, thoughtful way which is highly readable. It is a fascinating insight into a very specific relationship that links to broader issues of exhibiting, knowledge production and China-West relations and the politics and power structures of cultural institutions.’ Katie Hill, Sotheby's Institute of Art and OCCA, Office of Contemporary Chinese Art, Oxford, UK ’I very much enjoyed this well-written and highly informative book, and have no hesitation in recommending it to anyone with an interest in the display of contemporary culture and history.’ maozhang.net '...deserves a wide readership ... Barnes’ book is a great achievement.' Museum Anthropology Review