英文摘要 |
Constructing the city of labor: the representation of shanty towns in thenative-place textbooks during the Great-Leap-Forward movement (1958-1961)Shantytowns in Shanghai was a historical heritage since treaty ports appeared in China.Modern industry and commerce system turned Shanghai into the largest city in eastAsia, but western settlements split the governance of city. Low-income labors andshanty towns spread around western settlements. After the liberation of Shanghai, therenovation and restructuration of these unofficial labor settlements became thepractice of CCP's ideology and urban policies. In1958, the first edition of native-place textbooks was published by thecountry-wide instruction from central government, but the curriculum and teachingmaterials were designed by local government. These materials provide us anopportunity to observe the implementation and propagation on urban plan of localgovernment during the Great-Leap-Forward movement. Unlike other teachingmaterials, native-place textbooks represented a familiar image of students' hometown,the transformation in Shanghai after liberation and the vision after theGreat-Leap-Forward movement are the main ideas in teaching materials. Therenovation of shanty towns from shanties to boulevards also symbolized thecommunist government not only reconstructed the street blocks, but also reshape thesociety structure. The discourse in teaching materials connected the 'awaken' of labor form theawful living situation to brand-new workers' residential zones. The blueprints intextbooks weaved Shanghai from a metropolis of imperialism and capitalism into awell-planned socialist city. Stories about the renovation of shanty towns innative-place textbooks became the first chapter of this new narrative. Throughlearning these materials and join other activities during the Great-Leap-Forwardmovement, students gazed the transformation of landscape -- shanty towns and otherobjects in city represented the new birth under socialist rule. |