di Bailey Ashton Adie
ABSTRACT: This article follows the alterations in the National Museum of China from its creation at the beginning of the Republican period until the present. It focuses on intertwining historical and museological events in order to illustrate the strong ties between national identity, the museum, and shifts in the socio-economic and socio-political spheres.
National identity plays an important role within contemporary society in that it allows collections of individuals to be part of an inclusive group, defined traditionally by the geographic boundary of the nation state, a nineteenth century construct.






