Rogelja, I; (2020) The Museumification of Treasure Hill: Authenticity, Authority and Art in a Taiwanese Urban Village. The China Quarterly 10.1017/s0305741020000090. (In press).

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This article discusses the “museumification” of an urban village in Taipei into the Treasure Hill Artist Village in the context of wider debates on gentrification and the redevelopment of marginal urban spaces. Populated by soldiers evacuated to Taiwan following the Chinese Civil War, Treasure Hill became a hybrid space, combining welfare provision for elderly veterans with an artist colony, forming part of the Taipei Cultural Foundation. Lauded as a compromise that combined social, cultural and economic aspects of urban regeneration, the mix of high-modernist paternalism and neoliberal place-making resulted in the integration of the space into the existing city bureaucracy as a museum-like institution, with elderly residents and artists becoming exhibits in a living diorama. Although widely understood as “gentrification” at the time, the article argues that the museumification of Treasure Hill was a process led by a coalition of state and spatial experts which has distinct implications for the study of state-led neighbourhood amelioration. / 本文讨论了 ，在更广泛地议论关于城市边缘空间的士绅化与再开发的语境下，台北市一个城中村博物馆化成为 “宝藏岩国际艺术村”的演化过程。作为第二次国共内战后，撤离至台湾的士兵们栖居之所的眷村， “宝藏岩”结合成为了一种混合型空间，既对老兵提供福利，又作为艺术家庄园部分性地构建了台北文化基金会。这一博物馆化的动态过程被誉为一种融合社会，文化及经济等各方面的城市化复兴的和解，其结果混合着高度现代主义者的父爱主义及新自由主义的地方营造。因而得以在空间中，将作为一种博物馆式机构的现存城市官僚体制与年长的居民及艺术家，整合成为鲜活透视图中的展品。虽然在不同时间里被广泛地理解为“士绅化,”但本文试图论证 “宝藏岩”的博物馆化是一个由政府及空间专家所组成的同盟引领的建构过程。并且这一过程，对研究政府主导的邻域改善问题有着显著的影响。

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