The Revival and Restructuring of a Traditional Folk Festival: Cultural Landscape and Memory in Guangzhou, South China

Hui-ling, Chen; Wei, Tao

doi:10.3390/su9101767

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“…During China's fast urbanization process, villages experience negative social externalities and disamenity, which are essential to planning and policy-making when reconstructing village spaces [32]. China's urban renewal or redevelopment of informal settlements has faced various constraints such as limited investment and ambiguous property rights [33]. China's unprecedented urbanization has been dominated by urban expansion mode since the 1980s.…”

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Land Ownership, Rent-Seeking, and Rural Gentrification: Reconstructing Villages for Sustainable Urbanization in China

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Gentrification is a widespread urban phenomenon across the post-industrial world. However, rural gentrification has been explored insufficiently in the context of China's unprecedented urbanization. By reviewing the redevelopment processes in Zengcuoan village, Xiamen City, China, this study empirically reveals that the socio-spatial transformation of this village has been mainly led by artists and villagers based on institutional arrangements of land ownership. Rural gentrification, which involves refurbishing houses and public spaces, has played a key role in social life and the engagement between indigenous villagers and artists. As active rent-seekers, indigenous villagers contribute to gentrification in a combined effect with China's rural land property rights. Contrary to Western findings, villagers in China act as landlords who benefit from rural gentrification, which in turn causes grassroots artists or young people to move out because of the increasing rent or property prices. This paper attempted to enrich the extant understanding of rural Chinese gentrification and broaden the analytics of gentrification studies of the institutional arrangements from a land-ownership perspective. Contributing to the literature on rural gentrification, this study highlights the excessive commercialization of rent-seeking as the trigger of gentrification.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Land Ownership, Rent-Seeking, and Rural Gentrification: Reconstructing Villages for Sustainable Urbanization in China

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“…Not all the past is memory, and not all memories have retained value, and collective memory must be valuable through selection and preservation. Memory itself is a reiterated interpretation (Chen & Tao, 2017). Whether as a sign of a signifier or a symbol of signification, the interpretation or translation of symbols will be involved in the collective memory symbol system of Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market.…”

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Inheritance and Dissemination of Cultural Collective Memory: An Analysis of a Traditional Festival

Liao

Guang-quan

2020

Sage Open

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The traditional festivals in urban societies constitute public memory and are essential for constructing a sense of locality. Therefore, it is of great significance to study the collective memory of traditional urban festivals to promote the sense of locality. In this research, the Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market was selected as a case study. By examining the historical literature, and conducting field research and interviews, the collective memory of the Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market was classified and sorted from the perspective of the categories of collective memory. A collective memory graph of the Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market was constructed using Gephi complex network analysis software. By examining the rich memory content and hierarchical structure of the Guangzhou Winter Jasmine Flower Market, we can better understand and foster the function of traditional urban festivals as collective memory and achieve the sustainability of collective memory.

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“…Derrett investigates how cultural festivals develop and reflect a community's sense of place through four festivals in the Northern rivers region of NSW [8]. Chen and Tao assert that the landscapes of the Qiqiao festival memory are important in forming the identity of Zhucun City [9].…”

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The Sustainability of an Urban Ritual in the Collective Memory: Bergama Kermesi

İnceköse

2019

Sustainability

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Bergama Festival, locally known as Bergama Kermesi, is an annual festival which dates back to 22 May 1937 in the city. It came into existence as a result of Atatürk’s intention to introduce this, an extraordinary town with its historical and cultural properties, and promote it internationally. The Festival is an important element in the collective memory of the city. Initially, it was a civic event, a device in the formation process of the Turkish Republic. However, now, it is a civil event for national and international representatives, and a festival that allows locals and guests from different social, economic, and cultural backgrounds to mix freely and equally for a certain period. In the course of the Festival, the public buildings and the open spaces of the town become places of activity and entertainment. Parks, stadiums, the town square, and streets function as spaces for a variety of activities. Looking back at its 81-year history, one can notice some important changes in the Festival’s cultural and social practices, from an earlier state-dominated character into the current more publicly oriented one. This article studies the change of Bergama Festival as an ‘invented tradition’ into an element of the collective memory in town from the perspective of different public affairs that it introduces. In this regard, the article will also show how an urban ritual can maintain its sustainability by keeping itself fresh in the social life.

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The Revival and Restructuring of a Traditional Folk Festival: Cultural Landscape and Memory in Guangzhou, South China

Cited by 20 publications

References 34 publications

Land Ownership, Rent-Seeking, and Rural Gentrification: Reconstructing Villages for Sustainable Urbanization in China

Land Ownership, Rent-Seeking, and Rural Gentrification: Reconstructing Villages for Sustainable Urbanization in China

Inheritance and Dissemination of Cultural Collective Memory: An Analysis of a Traditional Festival

The Sustainability of an Urban Ritual in the Collective Memory: Bergama Kermesi

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