Reconnecting Spatialities in Uninhabited Industrial Spaces: Ruination and Sense of Place in a Coal Town (Datong, Shanxi

Audin, Judith

doi:10.4000/chinaperspectives.12669

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“…Other typical urban ruins in China are uninhabited industrial spaces deep in the hinterland, such as the coal town of Kouquan in Datong, Shanxi. Ethnography of the town undertaken in collaboration with diverse local groups produces new representations of the uninhabited place beyond the conventional scholarly lenses of the work unit, demolition, heritagisation, or decline (Audin, 2021b).…”

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“…An exemplar is a 2021 China Perspectives feature section on urban ruins and the production of space in contemporary China (introduced by Audin, 2021a). The collection involves non--island places in urban China, including Shanghai's outskirts and an urban village in Guangdong (Salgues, 2021); the uninhabited coal town of Kouquan near Datong, Shanxi (Audin, 2021b); obsolete architecture in the megacities of Beijing and Shanghai (Massey, 2021); and the ghost town of Ordos, Inner Mongolia (Woodworth, 2021). There are two salient tendencies in the aforementioned literature.…”

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The Affective Mediascapes of Chinese Island Abandonment

Hu¹

2023

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Islands have long been alluring to sojourners from outside, especially when they are, or are assumed to have been, abandoned. The island lure becomes more powerful when the abandonment is represented in the media in ways that evoke compelling affective responses. Against this background, I intend to critically examine the affective mediascapes of abandoned islands by focusing on three Chinese examples. I argue that it is necessary and possible to de-affect the media lure of abandoned islands in a place-specific way and probe for alternative affective responses in relation to one or several dominant affects in a given context.

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Section: Shima Advanced Publication 2023mentioning

confidence: 99%