Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Narrating China’s Special Economic Zones: A Study on the Spatial Narrative of Zhuhai Museum Cover

Narrating China’s Special Economic Zones: A Study on the Spatial Narrative of Zhuhai Museum

By: Xiao Xu  
Open Access
|Mar 2026

References

  1. Belk, RW. 1988. ‘Possessions and the extended self’. Journal of Consumer Research, 15(2): 139168. Available at: 10.1086/209154
  2. Belk, RW. 2013. ‘Extended self in a digital world’. Journal of Consumer Research, 40(3): 477500. Available at: 10.1086/671052
  3. Bennett, T. 1995. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. London: Routledge.
  4. Bollo, S and Zhang, Y. 2017. ‘Policy and Impact of Public Museums in China: Exploring New Trends and Challenges’. Museum International, 69(3–4): 2637. Available at: 10.1111/muse.12170
  5. Chen, L. 2016. ‘The Performative Space for City Identity Narrative: A Case Study on Suzhou Museum’. Journal of Journalism & Communication Studies, 23(8): 4966, 127.
  6. Chung, C, Manley, A, Wang, Y, Silk, M and Bailey, R. 2023. ‘Cross-Cultural Collaboration and Cultural Production within China’s Public Museums: Examining the Challenges and Practices Guiding Administration’. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(3): 328344. Available at: 10.1080/10286632.2022.2045978
  7. Denton, KA. 2014. Exhibiting the past: Historical memory and the politics of museums in postsocialist China. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. Available at: 10.21313/hawaii/9780824836870.001.0001
  8. Duncan, C. 1995. Civilizing Rituals: Inside Public Art Museums. London: Routledge.
  9. Foucault, M. 1975. Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. Vintage.
  10. Fraser, A. 2005. Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  11. Galla, A. 1995. ‘Urban museology: An ideology for reconciliation’. Museum International, 47(3): 4045. Available at: 10.1111/j.1468-0033.1995.tb01255.x
  12. Haron, SH, Wen, MJ and Jie, F. 2023. ‘The Energy Field of Museum Spatial Narrative: A Case Study of Hunan Provincial Museum in China’. Journal of Advanced Research in Applied Sciences and Engineering Technology, 33(1): 517528. Available at: 10.37934/araset.33.1.517528
  13. Hein-Kircher, H and Vahtikari, T. 2022. ‘City Museums in the Emerging Cities of Eastern Europe, 1880–1939: Introduction’. Museum History Journal, 15(1). Available at: 10.1080/19369816.2022.2042069
  14. Hooper-Greenhill, E. 1992. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge. London: Routledge.
  15. Huang, C. 2023. ‘Spatial Narratives in Museum Exhibitions: Issues, Potentials, and Strategies’. Southeast Culture, 5: 175182.
  16. Huang, J, Wu, M and Bao, Q. 2013. ‘Special Economic Zones, Contractual Systems and Comparative Advantage’. Journal of Management World, 11: 2838. Available at: 10.19744/j.cnki.11-1235/f.2013.11.004
  17. Huang, X. 2022. ‘A Study on Construction of Pluralism Social Memory in the Museum’. PhD. Zhejiang University.
  18. Jones, I. 2010. ‘Cities and Museums about Them’. In: Jones, I, MacDonald, RR and McIntyre, D (eds.) City museums and city development. First paperback edition ed. Lanham New York Toronto Plymouth, UK: AltaMira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
  19. Karp, I and Lavine, S. 1991. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
  20. Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B. 1998. Destination culture: Tourism, museums, and heritage. Nachdr. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. Available at: 10.1525/9780520919488
  21. Knell, S. 2007. Museums in the Material World. London: Routledge. Available at: 10.4324/9780203946855
  22. Lee, L. 2022. ‘Exhibiting Growth: Producing State-Market Hybridity in China’s Museum Industry’. Ethnos, 87(3): 560583. Available at: 10.1080/00141844.2020.1792526
  23. Li, D. 2019. ‘The Experiences of Urban Cultural Governance: A Case Study of “the City of Library” in Shenzhen’. Social Sciences in Shenzhen, 1: 111120, 160. Available at: 10.20183/j.cnki.szshkx.2019.01.013
  24. Mao, Y. 2009. ‘Discussion on the Transformation and Development of Special Economic Zones and Coastal Cities’. Guangdong Economy, 2: 4850.
  25. McLuhan, M. 1964. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  26. McRainey, DL. 2013. ‘Shaping a city museum’s future: Developing an audience-centered approach’. Journal of Museum Education, 38(1): 5059. Available at: 10.1080/10598650.2013.11510755
  27. Peers, L and Brown, AK. 2007. ‘Museums and Source Communities’. In: Watson, S (ed.) Museums and their communities. London: Routledge.
  28. Preziosi, D. 2003. Brain of the Earth’s Body: Art, Museums, and the Phantasms of Modernity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  29. Psarra, S. 2009. Architecture and Narrative: The Formation of Space and Cultural Meaning. London: Routledge. Available at: 10.4324/9780203639672
  30. Qu, F. 2022. ‘The operation status and development direction of the legislative power of the Zhuhai Special Economic Zone under the framework of legislation and reform’. Legality Vision, 29: 148150.
  31. Redaelli, E, Hansen, LE and Djupdræt, MB. 2025. ‘Museums as public spaces in the city: Insights from Aarhus, Denmark’. Cities, 159: 105778. Available at: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105778
  32. Ryan, M-L. 2001. Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
  33. Stylianou-Lambert, T. 2017. ‘Photographing in the art museum: Visitor attitudes and motivations’. Visitor Studies, 20(2): 114137. Available at: 10.1080/10645578.2017.1404345
  34. Tzortzi, K. 2024. ‘The urbanized museum’. Museum and Society, 22(1): 129140. Available at: 10.29311/mas.v22i1.4398
  35. Vickers, E. 2007. ‘Museums and Nationalism in Contemporary China’. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 37(3): 365382. Available at: 10.1080/03057920701330255
  36. Wang, B and Yin, K. 2022. ‘Re-Discussing the New Museologies’. Southeast Culture, 5: 130137.
  37. Wang, L. 2021. ‘M+ Museum: A New Cultural Landmark in Hong Kong’. People’s Daily (Overseas Edition), 04 December: 4. Available at: 10.28656/n.cnki.nrmrh.2021.003669
  38. Xiao, S and Zhu, G. 2025. ‘Exploration on the Value and Path of Urban Museums in Shaping Urban Image from the Perspective of Urban Memory—A Case Study of Kaifeng Museum’. Comparative Study of Cultural Innovation, 9(1): 188193.
  39. Zhan, N. 2019. ‘Study on the route of urban museum exhibition based on space syntax:As a case study of Chengdu new museum’. Master’s Thesis. Southwest Jiaotong University.
  40. Zhang, H. 2023. ‘Study on Exhibition Design of Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum from the perspective of spatial narrative Theory: A case study of Huaxia Haiya Museum in Binzhou City’. Master’s thesis. Jinan University.
  41. Zhu, Y. 2024. ‘Private Museum as Public Space: Local Remembering and Memory Politics in Yan’an, China’. Memory Studies, 17: 581598. Available at: 10.1177/17506980241240718
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcms.253 | Journal eISSN: 1364-0429
Language: English
Submitted on: Aug 29, 2025
|
Accepted on: Feb 20, 2026
|
Published on: Mar 31, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Xiao Xu, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Volume 23 (2026): Issue 1