On the Collective Constituting and Identity of Citizen Memories : A Case Study of Kaohsiung Museum of History

• Main Authors: Chia-Hsuan Lee, 李佳璇
• Other Authors: Jui-Lin Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/36604362631827374315

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 劇場藝術學系碩士班 === 101 === Nowadays the media, as cultural phenomena of globalization in the late period of capitalism, have disseminated widely in mass communication with the visual image of past, present and future appear simultaneously, which caused a erasure of history and consequently a logic of culture in collapse flat that lack of historical perspective. Since the alternative way of life, citizens are far less interested in public affairs and less care about hometown history. Government developments culture localization to find local arts and culture assets. Working local culture preserves traditional rituals and folklore activities. It is point for us to develop the local culture, to find the past arts and heritages, to save the traditional rituals and folk activities, and to preserve local literary and historical work. But these were the involvement from top to down by the State’s apparatus, which results in losing the identity of community and construction of local culture. When the residents’ capacity of mobility is insufficient and unwilling to participate the public affairs, also lacking of collective memory of community history, by that it cause serious difficulties of the transform to adequate community consciousness. Therefore, we are questioning: What it means the civil memory? How to construct and preserve it? Because of the planning of local culture archives with ordinary life circle have to offer the residents in promoting the community renaissance, integrating the region cultural resources with tangible and intangible proliferation. Then, we ask, what is the significance of municipal museum of history in districts? How to save the collective history and cultural heritage? What should the government implement the policy of museum processing? In case of Kaohsiung Museum of History (KMH), what is the key statement of and how to achieve the mission of culture sedimentation and civil memory, are the current problems. The Purpose of my study is to understand what and how to preserving citizen memory, and to prove what is the ultimate value of civil recollection in physical and mental items. Applying the qualitative research methods at the case of KMH, the study has to explore the collective constituting and identity of citizen memory. Literal data collecting, text interpreting, people interview, and direct observation in field, are need. Focusing on citizen memories, urban history, and museum management, are three essential aspects for our study. The psychological referent of memory is derivate from history of the individual and family then extended to the collective memories of city, hence of, the collective constitution of city history is based on the living existence of each citizen. In conclusion, KMH should be mainly appreciated to a whole historical view of Kaohsiung as well as of Taiwan in complement. Owing to constructing an adequate urban history, it is radically postulated to base at ordinary people’s lives with supplementation of and contrast to the other culture and arts. For the purpose of KMH to fulfill with citizen memory in preserving, researching, presenting, and promoting into an urban history, we insist that, it should be a place to show citizen life in past and penetrate them in records to lead any citizen look into the future.