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Commodifying art, Chinese style: The making of China’s visual art market

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The economic value of art to cities and regions has recently been vigorously pursued and actively studied. The rapid ascendance of China as a superpower in the global art market and associated transformation of China’s art space, however, are yet poorly understood. This paper develops a Polanyian framework to interpret the spatial and institutional evolution of China’s art market, seeing the (de)commodification of art as a cumulative process embedded in geo-historical interplays of triple logics—cultural, capital, and political, unfolding within, and reshaping in turn, historically inherited spatial structures.

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  • Jun Zhang, 2017. "Commodifying art, Chinese style: The making of China’s visual art market," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(9), pages 2025-2045, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:49:y:2017:i:9:p:2025-2045
    DOI: 10.1177/0308518X17713993
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