ABSTRACT
Since the 1990s, China has been developing from an industrial society to a post-industrial society. In the Western tradition, anthropological research mainly focused on “different cultures” of remote regions, but when this approach was taken to China, a country with a long history and ancient civilization, Chinese anthropologists started to research their own hometowns. This chapter mainly focuses on city art districts—a very new field of study in anthropological research history in China. The study of urban art districts represents a considerable challenge to anthropology’s research methods. Once so-called “primitive tribes” and village areas researched by traditional anthropology were mostly conceived as statically enclosed spaces. From the perspective of art theory, Dr. Kim-Wenting discussed the interaction between the artwork and its audience, and further expanded on the interaction between the art district and its viewer. Human civilization can be anticipated that both the distance and number of human beings’ physical movements will dramatically increase in the future.
