英文摘要 |
Insisting on the belief of“Green Olympics, Technology Olympics and Cultural Olympics”, Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, as a grand and brilliant show of“City Ritual”, is not purely a sport game, but also a practice concerning the whole reshaping of urban space. It is just a political-spatial project that Chinese Communist Party, which is under the condition of global competitions and challenges, aims to make the positive image and lead the China as a Nation revive strongly and rise up peacefully through a series of“image projects”such as National center for the Performing Arts, Beijing Capital International Airport, and Olympic stadiums. During the process, the manipulators not only adjust new functions of city, but also propagate symbolic display of architecture, so they have let the discourses of“green network city”and“visual spectacle architecture”gain their dominate positions and executable opportunities, and hence help materialize radically the appearance change of Beijing. What a pity is though these urban renewals, emphasizing technology and basing on spatial efficiency, greening, and environmental beautification, have proposed Chinese classical gardening spirits and historical-cultural values, stressed the merging horizon of modern and tradition, and actually achieved the effect of catalyzing climaxes of holding activities, they, due to the lacks of comprehending cite changes from the cross-cultural viewpoints of“locality”, could not creatively exalt the deep auras and special meanings that Beijing have accumulated in its own long-term history. Beijing, in the process of globalization modernity, hence has loosed an excellently good chance to recall its original long rhyme and to reshape its cultural identity through the mobilization of spatial meanings. This paper, through the way of discursive analysis, aims to survey the changing process of contemporary Beijing under the political-spatial project. By doing so, the author hopes not only to make clear its merits and flaws, but also to explore the possibility of making a breakthrough in profession, in order to establish a referential base for the further practices that famous historical cities try to joint themselves with modernity forces profoundly. |