Ruination and the Production of Space in Contemporary China

Audin, Judith

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“…This interest can be seen in studies involving various Chinese urban locations. 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).…”

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“…There are two salient tendencies in the aforementioned literature. First, it is recognised that the production of images and videos plays an essential role in constructing a sense of place for these locations, notwithstanding abandonment and ruination as hard facts (Audin, 2021a). The engagement of visual culture with abandonment and ruination is a contested issue.…”

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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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The Affective Mediascapes of Chinese Island Abandonment

Hu¹

2023

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“…Research on urban ruins is growing in cultural studies (Lam 2021b; Lopez‐Mugica and Whike 2022; Massey 2021; Ortells‐Nicolau 2017). Less has been written on how ruins are appropriated by ordinary individuals and social groups (Audin 2021).…”

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Of Other Dreamlands: Vernacular Adaptation, Urban Exploration, and Alternative Spectacles in China's Abandoned Themed Spaces

Audin

2023

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This article studies social meanings and practices emerging from two abandoned themed spaces in China: disused theme parks and mega‐event sites. Theme parks first appeared in the late 1980s–early 1990s, in the emerging leisure economy and society. In the 1990s–early 2000s, mega‐event urbanism became a driver of China's urban development and a strategy of national and international legitimacy. Since their abandonment and disuse by official owners, themed spaces have become ruinscapes where workers and visitors produce agency through rubble and ruination. These spaces constitute sites of vernacular occupation through farming, urban exploration, or wedding photography. Abandoned mega‐event sites create alternative spectacles of dereliction forming a critique of the original spectacle. Based on urban exploration as an ethnographic method and on fieldwork in Chinese abandoned themed spaces between 2015 and 2019, this article analyses the spatial and social dimensions of abandoned themed spaces in their afterlives as ruins and rubble.

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Double Consciousness of Chinese Modernity: in the Cosmopolitan Ruins of Shanghai

Lopez-Mugica

Whyke

2022

Fudan J. Hum. Soc. Sci.

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Ruination and the Production of Space in Contemporary China

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

The Affective Mediascapes of Chinese Island Abandonment

The Affective Mediascapes of Chinese Island Abandonment

Of Other Dreamlands: Vernacular Adaptation, Urban Exploration, and Alternative Spectacles in China's Abandoned Themed Spaces

Double Consciousness of Chinese Modernity: in the Cosmopolitan Ruins of Shanghai

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