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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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2019

ISBN

9781351203456

Edition

Topic

Art

Subtopic

History of Art

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