中國 國家博物館은 ‘중국’을 어떻게 표상하는가

Abstract

This study attempted to find out how the National Museum of China(NMC) represents “the Chinese nation”, through the establishment and change of the museum, the spatial composition of the exhibition room, and the contents of the exhibition. The NMC defines its function on the Internet homepage as a space for storing and exhibiting China’s excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture, and a place where political propaganda and political education are conducted. In other words, the NMC can be defined as a space that reveals how Chinese authorities perceive “the Chinese nation”. This study aimed to examine it from three aspects. First, it is the perception of “the Chinese nation” that can be seen in the history of 100 years from the establishment of the NMC to the present. Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the NMC has reached the present through the separation and integration process between the History Museum and the Revolutionary Museum. In this study, I examined “the Chinese nation” currently represented by the NMC through the separation and integration of the two museums. Second, the layout of the interior space of the NMC and the contents of the two permanent exhibitions “Ancient China(古代中國)” and “the Road of Rejuvenation(復興之路)” helped to realize the NMC’s perception of Chinese history. The main focus of the NMC is in the exhibition of modern and contemporary history, and “Ancient China” reveals the perception that it is only the “current foundation”. Third, through the composition and relics of the exhibition hall of “Ancient China”, I examined in the NMC how modern Chinese ideology, the “unified multi-ethnic state theory”, passed through.