英文摘要 |
Regarding the topic of glorifying and commemorating political leaders, the research in Sun Yat-Sen and Chiang Kai-Shek (also known as Chiang Chung-Cheng), both domestic and overseas, have delivered certain amount of outcome focusing on how the image and/or worship of their leadership have been molded via various mediums and channels. Intending to take a different approach, this research aims to explore both the similarities and dissimilarities of the characteristics of the time-space distribution and also the politics of place-naming between ‘Zhongshan’ and ‘Zhongzhen’ in Taiwan. In light of that, this research adopted the space-related viewpoints, e.g. scales, space hierarchy, location, etc., emphasized by Critical Toponymy as the main research angle, included Taiwan and its off-shore islands as the scope of research, and chose streets/roads, administrative areas and schools as indices to conduct analysis. The result shows that standing on the Guidelines for Revising the Names of Streets and Roads of Cities and Counties in Taiwan proclaimed and implemented on November 17th, 1945, the abovementioned place names, i.e.‘Zhongshan’ and ‘Zhongzhen’ began to create proliferative effects in a large scale in Taiwan’s public space. Although it is generally believed that both names started to widely permeate into people’s daily lives during the authoritarian period, this detailed research has discovered that such course itself is not synchronic; the spatial distribution is not homogeneous, either. Furthermore, the three different mediums, streets/roads, administrative areas and schools, that carrying the names show both dissimilar and similar space-time orientation. In other words, there are different meanings or intentions, and should not be put under the same category. |