Zeng Qiaoqiao
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My name is Zeng Qiaoqiao, I am a doctoral candidate of Tongji
University in Shanghai of China. My academic research is architectural
history and theory of contemporary Chinese architecture. My dissertation is
study on“China Architectural Idea Evolution in 1980S: Base on the
Architectural Journals Text Discourse Analysis”, It is focus on the
inner of architectural hot topics in 1980s of China, and analysis the
“debating” discourse in architectural media. |
abstract
Transition and Anxiety: A Case Study on
Historic Spatial Evolution of “the Socialistic Worker`s Village”(社会主义工人新村) in Shanghai
The
Socialistic “Worker`s Village”, as a typically ideological symbol
of specific historic period in China, has been produced by mass customization
and individualized configuration with simple patterns and models since the
1950s to 1980s of 20th Centries. The “Worker`s Village” is a type
of residence for the “Working-Class”. As an “image” of
specific period of China, it is usually characterized by large scale and vivid
socialism identifies, which has occupied and reshaped the urban spaces.
Fundamentally, the “Worker`s Village” is more like a
self-projection of culture than a socialistic urban image.
Instead
of the “Shi Ku Men” or megalopolis scene of “Pudong
Avenue” which were the urban images of excessive consumption or
misreading urually, this study focuses on the Socialistic “Worker`s
Village” in Shanghai. It is intended to conceived the spaces anxiety,
which is caused by the modernity transition and breakdown of history in
Shanghai, by retrospect the process of historic spacial evolution of
“Worker`s Village”. Meanwhile, this study also is aimed to
represent the dramatically conflicts and struggles under the change of urban
and social spaces by describing the everydayness of the “Worker`s
Village” diachronically. Moreover, this study is also designed to present
the economics, politics and ideological power of Shanghai since 1990s, and
urban space change between the modern and tradition with the alienation,
conflict and apposition, and thus for the sake of mapping the contemporary
Chinese social change discourse.
Key Words: The Socialistic “Worker`s
Village” in Shanghai, Historic Spacial Evolution, the Relationship
Between Urban Space and Social Ideology, “Working-Class” and
Everydayness, Transition and Anxiety