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地的博士论文研究将扩展中国研究学术（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）和文化地理研究（研究纪念地景观的解释）。它将研究经济发展（包括财政分权）对纪念文化景观的影响——进化纪念馆和神社——作为与中国市场改革相关的更广泛的意识形态转变的一个指标。它是在全省范围内构建的，在江西有三个特定的革命纪念地：井冈山、南昌和庐山。实地调查主要包括现场档案研究的二次数据收集和基于管理人员、随机访客和个人参与程度较深的访客访谈的第一手数据收集。二手数据将作为比较的基准，表明这些场地是否因经济改革而商业化。主要数据分析将基于简化的数据（转录和编码文件），以推断人们如何解释转变，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时间的动态本质。以江西为例，通过考察与中国纪念文化景观变化相关的发展，田野调查将有助于调查中国革命纪念馆正在发生什么样的转变，以及在这种转变中揭示了什么样的意识形态转变。这项研究将揭示经济发展对中国政治和文化现象的影响，为中国快速变化的经济和社会结构提供新的见解。这将有助于解释意识形态、发展和景观之间的关系，在一个这样的研究很少的国家。它将解决区域发展地理学与中国区域文化地理学之间的差距，弥合西方纪念文化景观的研究与中国类似景观的研究，因为对纪念碑文化景观的研究往往更多地集中在欧洲和北美等地区。该研究还将为地理学科引入丰富的跨文化资源，以辨别由于经济发展而引起的中国文化景观变化中的有争议的意识形态，为中国研究领域提供文化和政治视角，以解决中国身份如何根据改革时代区域发展的影响进行调整的更大问题。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.