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@article{ART001690687},
author={Eungchel, Lee},
title={Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China},
journal={Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies},
issn={1225-8539},
year={2012},
volume={19},
number={2},
pages={41-67},
doi={10.18107/japs.2012.19.2.002}

TY - JOUR
AU - Eungchel, Lee
TI - Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China
JO - Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
PY - 2012
VL - 19
IS - 2
PB - Institute of Global Affairs
SP - 41
EP - 67
SN - 1225-8539
AB - In this article, I analyzed the placeness of Huaihai Road, Shanghai,China. Placeness means the social meaning attached to the place by the members of a particular society who live in the particular place. A particular place is a social product which cannot be explained by its physical location only, but which is socially constituted from interactions and meaning-makings which take place in that place. The interpretation to that particular place needs analytical explanations of people who live there. Huaihai Road was constructed in the early 20th century when the French Concession tried to expand its boundary in Shanghai. When the road first appeared in 1900, it was called Baochang Road. In 1910the name of the road was changed to Xiafei Road, and after the ‘liberation’ of Shanghai in 1950 it was called Huaihai Road commemorating the victory of CCP against KMT at the battle of 1949in Huai Hai. Huaihai Road is the best-known consuming place in Shanghai where many famous global luxury brands are concentrated. The image of consumption comes to the fore, while some things are brought into intentional oblivion, things including humiliation of Chinese people in the era of Shanghai’s degradation to the status of treaty port, or everyday life of the residents living nearby Huaihai Road. In addition,the flourishing Huaihai Road can be said as ‘public amnesia of the socialist past.’ Many young Shanghainese have selective memory of refined modernity of past modern Shanghai and show their desire to the global modernity at Huaihai Road. There is one more important thing about Huaihai Road. The Shanghainese shape their own identities through Huaihai Road. They assert that the road is the place of their own distinguished from other place, especially from Nanjing Road where they think ‘waidiren’(i.e. non-Shanghainese) infest. Through this standpoint, Shanghai people say that Huaihai Road is the most representative place of Shanghai,and because of this they insist that they are Shanghairen. As Michel de Certeau has already said, the Shanghainese make social meanings of Hauihai Road by their practice of space.
KW - Placeness;Identity;Consumption;Huai Hai Road;Shanghai
DO - 10.18107/japs.2012.19.2.002
ER -

Eungchel, Lee. (2012). Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 19(2), 41-67.

Eungchel, Lee. 2012, "Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China", Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, vol.19, no.2 pp.41-67. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2012.19.2.002

Eungchel, Lee "Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 19.2 pp.41-67 (2012) : 41.

Eungchel, Lee. Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China. 2012; 19(2), 41-67. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2012.19.2.002

Eungchel, Lee. "Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 19, no.2 (2012) : 41-67.doi: 10.18107/japs.2012.19.2.002

Eungchel, Lee. Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 19(2), 41-67. doi: 10.18107/japs.2012.19.2.002

Eungchel, Lee. Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies. 2012; 19(2) 41-67. doi: 10.18107/japs.2012.19.2.002

Eungchel, Lee. Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China. 2012; 19(2), 41-67. Available from: doi:10.18107/japs.2012.19.2.002

Eungchel, Lee. "Memory, Oblivion, Identity and Placeness: Cultural Meanings of Huaihai Road, Shanghai, China" Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies 19, no.2 (2012) : 41-67.doi: 10.18107/japs.2012.19.2.002