| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 92 === The trading of secondhand books is an old business that has been existing for a long time. Since books that have material form and spiritual content were created in ancient china, the commerce and preservation of books mostly relied upon the book-collectors and the booksellers’ efforts. Book collecting, book searching and book discovering by intellectuals in ancient times expressed the interaction between human beings and books. Beside, due to the respect of paper with words in tradition local society, intellectuals and the rubbish collectors have jointly constructed the common sense about book recycling. In modern times, the secondhand bookstores have passed through the period of Japan colonial governance and the military authority of KMT in postwar Taipei. In a material sense, the secondhand book trading has its characteristics of both systems of consumption and recycling, and the secondhand bookstores are used as public spaces with book exchange. A new book is produced by the culture industry; however, a secondhand book is engraved with someone’s life traces in circulation. So the secondhand bookstore not only is the end of book circulation, but also has more functions of historical proof, antiquarian preservation, and memorizing the past.
However, researches on bookstore in modern Taiwan transplants too much consumption culture theory from the west, the materiality of books is removed as well as the relationship between human beings and books in traditional discourse is simplified as pure consumption and sign concept that is de-history and de-society. So that, my thesis will bring up a new perspective on the materiality of books and the relationship between human beings and books. Based on the historical research that focus on the Gulling Street, Guanhua Market, and the secondhand bookstores after 1980, the author trying to go beyond the limit of consumption theory, and reinterpret the development of secondhand bookstores in the context of urban society in postwar Taipei.
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