The Research On The Formation And Development Of Chinese Museology Theory System

Being a subject, the Museology has its specific theory system .The Museology is a product of the western society since modern times, which is the" same as museums. Chinese came to know museums in the middle of the 19th century. The first Chinese museum was set up at the beginning of the 20th century, at the same time, the research on Museology was carried out gradually. Further more, Chninese built up the subject consiously in the 30s and straightforwardly aim to construct the system info of the Museology with Chinese characteristic from the early 80s. Generally speaking, Chinese theory system has been complete as well as rich in contents. The research on it will not only reinforce the understanding the theory system itself, but also lay a necessary theory foundation for its further development.The present thesis will analyse the theory system of Chinese Museology in order to reveal its longitudinal development, horizontal structure and developing trend. The research will be carried out in two ways: one is to straighten out and make a conclusion of the developing course of Chinese Museology; the other is to arrange and intergrate its basic framework and contents. At the end, the various factors influncing the development of Chinese Museology and the future will be concluded and analysed correspondingly.Eight chapters consists of the paper:Chaper 1: 3 levels. Firstly, the paper expounds the double significances of working on this project—theoretically and practically; secondly, it shows the basic researching methods; at last, it provides essential explanations to several key problems on the definition and the system info of the Museology. Among the questions, the most important one is the real issue of the Chinese Museology.Chapter 2: Explanations to the origin and research course of the World Museology, including: the forming and expanding of the Museology,two theory systems of the Museology after WWII and the research against the globalisation. From the analysis, we can see that, on one hand , all experts on the Museology take pains to research its theory and aim at unitying and regulating the terms and concept proposition; on the other hand, they constantly seek after new theories and methods unique to their national situations, which is shown clearly through the current development of Chinese Museology.Chaper 3: Discussion on the early period of Chinese Museology influnced by the western culture. The characters of this phase are the weakness of the system info and the efforts to intergrate with the world.Chapter 4: Focus on the changes of Chinese museum science under the Soviet model.The following are discussed here: the introduction of the Soviet model,the systematic changes of Chinese Museology and the features during the reforming phase .Chapter 5: Discripsion of the independence and development of the Chinese Museology after the reform and opening-up.And here the all-round advantages, academic fruits and systematization of the theory are analysed and concluded. The Museology developed at a surpringly pace during this phase.Chapter 6: Shows the fundamental structure and contents of the theory system of Chinese Museology.Chapter 7: The future trends are investgated: modernization and integrating with the international Museology.Chapter 8: Three cognitions are pointed out: the Chinese Museology has not been connected completely with the world, imbalance of branches as well as the gradual maturity of the system info. At the end, the author puts forward 4 concrete proposals on how to strengthen the research on the Museology.