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Vol. 95 - Special Issue on Urban Guidebooks and Representations of Space
ISSN：
1029-4740
Date：
2017-3
Softcover：250 TWD
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Pages：
132
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Abstract：
This issue contains three articles: “Spatial Features of Temple Destruction Campaigns in Modern Chinese Cities,” by Paul R. Katz; “The City and the Seaside: Constructing Leisure Culture and Space at Beidaihe, 1890s-1930s,” by Poon Shuk-wah; “City Guidebooks and the Spatial Transformation of Modern Qingdao,” by Ma Shuhua and Zhao Chengguo; Book Reviews: “Matthew H. Sommer,
Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions
,” by Zhang Meng-zhu; “Duan Zhiqiang,
The Gu Temple: Gu Yanwu and the Remolding of the Political Personality of Scholars in the Late Qing Dynasty
,” by Yan Yuhao.
Contents
Articles
Spatial Features of Temple Destruction Campaigns in Modern Chinese Cities
[Abstract]
Paul R. Katz
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1
This study explores how temple destruction campaigns shaped spatial aspects of religious life in modern Chinese cities. Previous scholarship has focused on top-down efforts to reform local cults and eradicate “superstition,” but we still know little about how this played out in Chinese cities. This article begins by summarizing background information about temple destruction campaigns undertaken in urban areas during the modern era. This is followed by an analysis of such campaigns according to two different conceptual frameworks. The first, based on a case study of Shanghai using archival sources and urban guidebooks, examines how temples were positioned in urban landscapes. The second, focusing on Wenzhou and its environs, considers how the impact of temple destruction campaigns could differ by area. The article’s conclusion assesses this data in light of larger changes in urban religious ecology. Urban networks of ascriptive temples and their territorial festivals tended to be more deeply impacted by anti-superstition policies and urban modernization, while pilgrimages fared better. In addition, the dynamism of modern urban religious life favored entrepreneurial shrines; many urban mediums had their own shrines, usually located in rented shops or street-level apartments.
Keyword
：temple destruction campaigns, Shanghai, Wenzhou, urban guidebooks
The City and the Seaside: Constructing Leisure Culture and Space at Beidaihe, 1890s-1930s
[Abstract]
Poon Shuk-wah
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39
This article analyses the increasing importance of the seaside and sea-bathing to the leisure culture of Chinese urban elites and common people through a close study of Beidaihe. The most renowned seaside resort in North China, Beidaihe began to gain an iconic status in the late 1890s thanks to the newly-developed railway system. Attracted by its beautiful scenery and excellent qualities as a sea-bathing site, Westerners living in Tianjin and Beijing turned Beidaihe into an ideal seaside resort for escaping the summer heat. The nameless seaside “space” was gradually transformed into a “place” endowed with a distinct cultural identity, and attracted some Chinese urban elites to come and seek control over the area. They founded the Beidaihe Seaside Welfare Association in 1918 under the leadership of Zhu Qiqian, which managed to establish control in western Beidaihe and imbued the Western-style landscape of Beidaihe with Chinese cultural elements. Guidebooks and travel writings further popularized the image of Beidaihe as an ideal seaside resort among the Chinese population. This article argues that the changes in the spatial configurations and the sense of place of Beidaihe reflected the changing power relationships between the Chinese and Westerners, and helped shape the class and national identities of urban elites in Republican China.
Keyword
：Beidaihe, sea-bathing, Zhu Qiqian, Beidaihe Seaside Welfare Association, travel guides
City Guidebooks and the Spatial Transformation of Modern Qingdao
[Abstract]
Ma Shuhua‧Zhao Chengguo
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City guidebooks were a new type of publication in modern China. They offered advice to visitors, businessmen, and locals, thus reflecting and affecting urban change. In the first half of the twentieth century, Qingdao saw over twenty kinds of city guidebooks, such as travel guides, city overviews, short guides and general information, in a variety of languages including German, Japanese, English, and Chinese. These books covered a large variety of topics: foreign relations, political conditions, economic conditions, city functions, tourist spots, and travel routes, and therefore are important historical records of Qingdao’s spatial development and social and cultural transformation. Early guidebooks written in German praised Qingdao as “the perfect model colony” and recommended it for summer vacations; English versions aimed to provide Europeans with useful information; and the Japanese guidebooks reflected Japan’s expansionist plans while highlighting Qingdao’s social and economic functions as a Japanese colony. Qingdao guidebooks also conveyed the Chinese people’s sense of autonomy, ability, and cultural identity in city management. Qingdao’s spatial formation and its guiding principles were reflected in the guidebooks, as were colonization and decolonization, traditions and characteristics, and landscapes and functions.
Keyword
：city guidebooks, Qingdao, spatial transformation
書評
Matthew H. Sommer,
Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions
Zhang Meng-zhu
PDF
119
Duan Zhiqiang,
The Gu Temple: Gu Yanwu and the Remolding of the Political Personality of Scholars in the Late Qing Dynasty
Yan Yuhao
PDF
127
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