Rural Art Revitalization - A Comparative Study Between Japan and China

作为振兴农村和周边地区的手段，社会参与型艺术、艺术社会实践、节庆旅游和创造性的场所建设活动的力量在日本和中国都受到了越来越多的国际关注。从2017年开始，中国开始邀请来自中国和日本的乡村艺术场所制作者就艺术乡村振兴项目进行合作并分享最佳实践。这些新兴的跨国家/地区的“艺术嫁接”项目引发了人文（艺术学）和社会科学（地理学、旅游学、乡村学）等多学科的研究课题。本研究旨在对中日两国乡村地区最具代表性的艺术振兴项目的绩效和运作机制，以及两国之间正在出现的合作成果进行评估。通过比较，进一步了解艺术乡村振兴项目的异同，这些项目依靠艺术场所营造来实现长期的社区振兴。本研究的意义不仅限于振兴两国乡村社会的可能性，而且与连接日本和中国乡村的新的跨国艺术振兴现象相一致，其研究结果也将成为亚洲和全球其他乡村社会实现乡村可持续发展和振兴的工具。

The power of socially engaged art, artistic social practice, festival tourism, and creative place-making activities as an instrument for the revitalization of rural and peripheral regions is receiving more international attention in both Japan and China. Starting from 2017, China started to invite rural art place-makers from both China and Japan to collaborate on art’s rural revitalization projects and share best practices. These emerging cross-national/regional ‘art grafting’ projects give rise to several multidisciplinary research questions that encompass humanities (art studies) and social sciences (geography, tourism, and rural studies).This study aims to evaluate the performance and operation mechanism of the most representative art revitalization projects in rural Japan and China, as well as the emerging collaboration outcomes between the two countries. This comparative sets out to gain further understanding of the differences and similarities of art’s rural revitalization projects that rely on art place-making for long-term community revitalization. The significance of this research is not limited only to the possibilities to revitalize these two countries’ rural societies; in line with the new transnational art revitalization phenomenon that connects rural Japan and China, the findings will also serve as a vehicle for rural sustainable development and revitalization for other Asian and global rural societies.