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A Study on the Sense of Place in Chinese Literature about Modern Architecture

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2013, (31), pp.499-530
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2013..31.021
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : February 28, 2013

Dong Chion Zang 1

1고려대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

A place is the result of effects of time. Places are made up of memories which are the accumulation of history. The meanings of traditional places are based on the various experiences when those places became one with people. Producing the nature of a certain place through memories of these experiences is called "Sense of Place." Architecture is the realization of a place's meaning. Because literature is the development of life's beauty, sense of place, which is the accumulation of life's history and information, can become a type of dialogue which acts as the architecture of literature. In this case, architecture comes to have a literary sense of place through an internal context rather than an outside symbol. In China, there have been many pieces of literature which embody the sense of place of traditional architecture. However, after the formation of modern space, many authors felt the shock of liquid modernity. Through interpretation of this new space, these authors were able to escape traditional places and move to a new sense of place. Although China's modern architecture has a short history and was formed during a period of colonization, authors were able to create a layered sense of place in their literary works through various interpretations. In the larger literary cultural topos, Chinese modern space reveals many cross sections through literary sense of place progressed through architecture. The realization of sense of place is more related to collective experiences than individual experiences. These collective memories are inseparable from cultural regionality. Therefore, sense of place is the driving force behind treating regionality as the central focus of culture discourse. The Chinese have recently instigated a restoration project of urban space of the early modern period based on these characteristics of space. This is not merely a project to restore the historic landscape, but it also contains the strategy of local governments to sell their regional cultural places. Therefore, regional historic sites of literature undergo a remembrance making process and receive a new sense of place. These places are then consumed as literary places to satisfy the nostalgia of the people. This article was written based on the social actions which arise due to the connection of literature and architecture. This article creates two categories of sense of place expressed through literature and place making of historical sites of literature and examines Chinese sense of place of modern Chinese architecture as seen in modern literature. Because this article is a diachronic examination of sense of place, the quoted examples are compositions which run parallel to the concept of sense of place rather than causal relationships with literary history.

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