Tiananmen and Freedom Square: National Feeling, Monumentality and Cultural Landscape

博士 === 國立東華大學 === 族群關係與文化學系 === 105 === This paper defines the meaning of the square as space, place and territory, and explains the conceptual openness and closeness of the square. The theme of this study is Tiananmen Square and Freedom Square, which contains the mobilization of the people, the his...

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Main Authors: Chao-Zhi Yang, 楊超智
Other Authors: Chun-Chieh Chi
Format: Others
Published: 2017
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4c4pvc
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Summary:博士 === 國立東華大學 === 族群關係與文化學系 === 105 === This paper defines the meaning of the square as space, place and territory, and explains the conceptual openness and closeness of the square. The theme of this study is Tiananmen Square and Freedom Square, which contains the mobilization of the people, the historical record of the events, and the symbolic symbols of the monuments. Comparison of Tiananmen Square and Freedom Square, which represents the two squares as a microcosm of China and Taiwan society, describes the two cities of the modern context, and analyze the diversity of culture. This study, through cultural media information, specifies that buildings, landscapes, people, events, and monuments around the two squares are rich in stories, whether Tiananmen Square or Freedom Square. Ethnographic writing is to explain the daily life of Chinese society.The subject of research can cover the "ethnic politics" and "nationalism". The geographical position of the square is related to the development of the city and the history of the country. Square in the national landscape, such as flag-raising ceremony, the viewer will be included in the country as the representative of the visual impression and imagination. The landscape of the square, nationalism, emotion and memory, etc., in the cultural media on the relationship, constitute a structure can be analyzed. Taiwan and the Chinese society for each other's imagination, there is a gap situation. Square can be interpreted as a combination of desire, imagination and practice formed by the cultural landscape. Keywords: Tiananmen Square, Freedom Square, Nationalism, Structure of Feeling, Monumentality, Cultural Landscape, Ethnography