Dream Weaving: Reconstruction of Space and Knowledge Production A research on the urban plan and construction in Nanjing 1927--1937.

详细信息   

• 作者：Liu ; Wei.
• 学历：Doctor
• 年：2011
• 导师：Yip, Hon Ming,eadvisorLeung, Yuen Sang,eadvisor
• 毕业院校：The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• ISBN：9781267213907
• CBH：3500799
• Country：China
• 语种：English
• FileSize：24544186
• Pages：219

文摘

In 1927, China entered a new period in its history. In April, after the Northern expedition the Nationalists Guomindang) under Chiang Kaishek established the National Government in Nanjing. Soon after, the Nanjing Government initiated a massive building project for the construction of a new Nanjing as the Capital of China, a project with multi-layers of political and cultural meanings. The purpose of this dissertation is to study and analyse the motive and design of this project and to discuss the different aspects of its political and cultural meanings and their implications. The first chapter gives a historical background of the city of Nanjing before the Guomindang, highlighting its political past and cultural achievements before the modern era. In the remaking of Nanjing, the most important objective was political legitimacy. The new city was to establish its authority as the National Capital of China, the seat of the central government, to replace the era of warlordism and political division of the early Republican period. Moreover, the Nanjing Project aimed at providing a political model, with a civic government, modern hygiene, cultured society, and careful urban planning, for the whole country to emulate. In other words, the new Nanjing was supposed to be a model city with a modern government and an enlightened citizenry. It was an integral part of Guomindangs "State-Making" process. This dissertation focuses on the process of "city-planning" in the reconstruction of the new Capital from 1927 to 1937, and one very important dimension in the Nationalist plan in reorganizing the physical space of the city it also transformed the city into a place for the production of modern knowledge that shaped the national identity of modern China. This dissertation examines how the "city-planning" of the Nanjing Project became a part of this national discourse on State-Making and shaping of national identity.