Most cities in China have experienced dramatic changes during the systematic progress of modernization and commercialization. Rebuilding residential space into heritage preservation is popular in Chinese urban plannin...Most cities in China have experienced dramatic changes during the systematic progress of modernization and commercialization. Rebuilding residential space into heritage preservation is popular in Chinese urban planning. Yearning for modernity generates a policy of cultural protection which is transformed by the public spaces within which people carry out daily lives. However, heritage preservation in these cities is in a dilemma. On side, with the opening up, Chinese society toward modernization has been accompanied by large-scale urbanization, rapid commercialization and a booming consumerism. The Chinese capital has forced people to face the challenge of urban environment management and adaptation to a new city. The traditional streets in big cities are destroyed first and then rebuilt to turn the capital into an international metropolis. On the other side, heritage protection needs its historical roots as the authentic cultural features. To some extent, the process of urban landscaping stimulates people＇s nostalgia tie. Although it seems to be individual, it is also a link of one＇s historical memory of sentiment with the development of social construction. Hence, collective urban nostalgia that emerged through the rebuilding of heritage in urban China can promote nationalism from the governmental perspective. Further, it can also lead people face the life itself but neglect the social tensions around them. Meanwhile, rebuilding mode of Longtang also elaborates the power structure existing among state, capital, intellectuals.展开更多
Building explicit links between historical memory and place attachment, this paper investigates the intertwined relationship between globalization, urban revitalization, and neighborhood gentrification in post-reform ...Building explicit links between historical memory and place attachment, this paper investigates the intertwined relationship between globalization, urban revitalization, and neighborhood gentrification in post-reform Shanghai. Based on field research conducted intermittently between 1999 and 2007, it probes the local grounding of the ongoing place-making processes in terms of the ＂lower/higher quarter＂ dichotomy reminiscent of Shanghai＇s semi--colonial past and the apparent contradictions in the politics of planning. By way of mapping ＂Shanghai nostalgia＂ in time and space, attempts are made to locate the cultural symbols in actual sites so that upper quarters and lower quarters as imagined communities come to be attached to imagined places. From the intimate perspectives provided by ethnographic fieldwork, the author explores the significance of locality power embedded in the dichotomy-the ways in which it is exploited, the memories to which it is linked, and more importantly, the explanations it provides for present-day reconfigurations of social space and redistributions of cultural resource in China＇s most cosmopolitan city.展开更多
文摘Most cities in China have experienced dramatic changes during the systematic progress of modernization and commercialization. Rebuilding residential space into heritage preservation is popular in Chinese urban planning. Yearning for modernity generates a policy of cultural protection which is transformed by the public spaces within which people carry out daily lives. However, heritage preservation in these cities is in a dilemma. On side, with the opening up, Chinese society toward modernization has been accompanied by large-scale urbanization, rapid commercialization and a booming consumerism. The Chinese capital has forced people to face the challenge of urban environment management and adaptation to a new city. The traditional streets in big cities are destroyed first and then rebuilt to turn the capital into an international metropolis. On the other side, heritage protection needs its historical roots as the authentic cultural features. To some extent, the process of urban landscaping stimulates people＇s nostalgia tie. Although it seems to be individual, it is also a link of one＇s historical memory of sentiment with the development of social construction. Hence, collective urban nostalgia that emerged through the rebuilding of heritage in urban China can promote nationalism from the governmental perspective. Further, it can also lead people face the life itself but neglect the social tensions around them. Meanwhile, rebuilding mode of Longtang also elaborates the power structure existing among state, capital, intellectuals.
文摘Building explicit links between historical memory and place attachment, this paper investigates the intertwined relationship between globalization, urban revitalization, and neighborhood gentrification in post-reform Shanghai. Based on field research conducted intermittently between 1999 and 2007, it probes the local grounding of the ongoing place-making processes in terms of the ＂lower/higher quarter＂ dichotomy reminiscent of Shanghai＇s semi--colonial past and the apparent contradictions in the politics of planning. By way of mapping ＂Shanghai nostalgia＂ in time and space, attempts are made to locate the cultural symbols in actual sites so that upper quarters and lower quarters as imagined communities come to be attached to imagined places. From the intimate perspectives provided by ethnographic fieldwork, the author explores the significance of locality power embedded in the dichotomy-the ways in which it is exploited, the memories to which it is linked, and more importantly, the explanations it provides for present-day reconfigurations of social space and redistributions of cultural resource in China＇s most cosmopolitan city.
