近代长江上游城市的博览会活动考察——以重庆为例

Study on Expo Activities in Modern Cities in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River:Taking Chongqing as an Example

19世纪末20世纪初,商品博览会在中国勃兴,长江上游的商贸重镇重庆在政府和民间团体的相互配合下,经历了从参展到自主筹办的历程。这种新式商业活动的出现不仅影响到人们对商品的理解,实际也改变了地方的社会风气,灌输一种新的城市文化。在这一活动中,商品承载了现代城市形象的重要象征意义,无论是参展还是主办,都成为鼓舞并实践现代文明城市的手段,“消费型”城市作为政府规训下的高度地域认同,逐渐改变了重庆这座西部内陆城市的发展脉络。

At the end of the 19th century,China began to organize expositions.The local government of Chongqing cooperates with social organizations,first participating in expositions held elsewhere,and later hosting the exposition on its own.In this event,commodities play an important symbolic role in the image of a modern city.Whether it is exhibiting or hosting,it has become a means to inspire and practice a modern civilized city.As a high-level regional identity under the government's discipline,"consumer-type"cities have gradually changed the development of Chongqing.