Doctoral Dissertation Research: Changing Cultural Landscape of Commemoration in China: The Case of Revolutionary Memorials in Jiangxi

这篇关于中国革命纪念馆的博士论文研究将延伸中国研究20世纪70年代末以来经济发展和改革的政治和文化影响的学术研究，以及文化地理学学术研究对纪念景观的解读。它将考察经济发展(包括财政分权)对纪念文化景观-进化纪念碑和神殿-的影响，以此作为与中国市场化改革相关的更广泛意识形态转变的指标。它的结构是省级规模的，在江西有三个具体的革命纪念地：井冈山、南昌和庐山。实地研究将主要涉及现场档案研究的二次数据收集，以及基于对管理人员、随机访客和个人参与程度较深的访客的访谈而收集的主要数据。二次数据将作为比较的基线，表明这些地点是否由于经济改革而商业化。主要数据分析将基于减少的数据(转录和编码文件)，以推断人们如何解释这一转变，以及中国纪念活动的文化景观如何揭示中国文化、社会和政治价值观随着时间的推移的动态性质。通过考察与江西中国纪念文化景观变化相关的发展，田野调查将有助于考察中国革命纪念碑正在发生什么变化，这种变化揭示了什么是意识形态的转变。这项研究将揭示经济发展对中国政治文化现象的影响，并对中国快速变化的经济和社会结构提供新的见解。它将有助于解释意识形态、发展和景观之间的关系，在一个这样的研究一直很少见的国家。它将解决区域发展地理与中国所在地区的文化地理之间的差距，弥合了西方纪念文化景观和中国类似景观的研究，因为对古迹文化景观的研究往往更多地集中在欧洲和北美等地区。这项研究还将为地理学提供丰富的跨文化资源，以识别在不断变化的中国文化景观中因经济发展而产生的有争议的意识形态，为中国研究领域提供一个文化和政治的视角，以解决改革时代中国认同如何根据区域发展的影响进行调整这一更大的问题。作为博士论文研究改进奖，该奖项还将提供支持，使有前途的学生建立一个强大的独立研究生涯。

This doctoral dissertation research on the revolutionary memorials in China will extend China Studies scholarship on the political and cultural implications of economic development and reform since the late 1970s, and Cultural Geography scholarship on interpretations of memorial landscapes. It will examine the effects of economic development (including fiscal decentralization) on the cultural landscapes of commemoration - evolutionary memorials and shrines - as an indicator of broader ideological shifts associated with market reforms in China. It is structured on a provincial scale with three specific revolutionary memorial sites in Jiangxi: Jinggangshan, Nanchang, and Lushan. The field research will primarily involve secondary data collection of on-site archival research and primary data collection based on interviews with managerial staff, random visitors, and visitors with deeper personal involvement. Secondary data will serve as the baseline for comparison, indicating whether the sites are commercialized due to economic reform. Primary data analysis will be based on the reduced data (transcribed and coded file) for drawing inferences as to how people interpret the transformation, and how cultural landscapes of commemoration in China reveal the dynamic nature of Chinese cultural, social, and political values over time. By examining development in relation to the changing cultural landscape of commemoration in China in the case of Jiangxi, the fieldwork will help to investigate what transformation is occurring with the revolutionary memorials in China and what ideological shift is revealed in this transformation. The research will shed light on the impacts of economic development on political and cultural phenomena in China, revealing new insights into the rapidly changing economy and social structures of China. It will help interpret the relationship between ideology, development, and landscape in a country where such studies have been rare. It will address the gap between the geography of regional development and the cultural geography of China's regions, bridging the study of cultural landscapes of commemoration in the West and similar landscapes in China since studies on the cultural landscape of monuments tend to concentrate more on regions such as Europe and North America. The research will also introduce to the discipline of geography a rich cross-cultural resource for discerning contested ideologies as a result of economic development in the changing cultural landscape in China, providing the China Studies field with a cultural and political perspective in addressing the greater issue of how Chinese identity adjusts according to the effects of regional development in the reform era. As a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement award, this award also will provide support to enable a promising student to establish a strong independent research career.