从“荒滩废垒”至“丝路明珠”:新中国成立后嘉峪关区域空间意象变迁

From“Waste Base on Barren Beach”to“Pearl of Silk Road”:Jiayuguan and Changes of Its Regional Spatial Image after the Founding of the People’s Republic of China

嘉峪关及其区域空间意象,在国家“西部开发”“改革开放”等经济战略中,随着这一区域工业化、城市化和现代化的整体推进而不断变迁,从建国初的“荒滩废垒”,变成欣欣向荣的“钢城”,继而又变成举世瞩目的“丝路明珠”。这是国家地理优选和区域空间多维构建的空间效应,也是人们对区域空间认知的文化表征和意指实践。本文借助文学作品,研究嘉峪关及其区域空间意象,充分展现区域空间构建、空间效应、空间感受和空间意义,旨在倡导和践行新文化地理学这一研究思路和学术转向。

In the country’s economic strategies such as“reform and opening up”and“western development”,Jiayuguan and its regional space image constantly changed from the“waste base on barren beach”at the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China to a thriving“steel city”,and then to a world-renowned“pearl of silk road”,with the overall advancement of industrialization and urbanization in this region,in the northwest economic strategy of the country,This is the spatial effect of national space selection and multi-dimensional construction of regional space,as well as the cultural representation and referential practice of people’s cognition of regional space,This paper studies Jiayuguan and its regional spatial images with the help of literary works,fully displaying regional spatial construction,spatial effect,spatial feeling and spatial significance,aiming at practicing the research idea and academic turn of new cultural geography.