A Study on the Discourses and Literary Works of Chenghuang Belief in the Taiwan Minpao Series
| Autor: | MENG-JU Tsai, 蔡孟儒 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 107 This research tries to look for new ways of analysis in the research that uses "modernity" as its main method to interpret Taiwan urban literature during the Japanese colonial period. The modernization of places is not a momentary change. Current research on urban fiction of the Japanese colonial period mainly discusses the early experiences of the modern that modernity offers urban residents, as well as the interaction of the city and its residents. However, the research in this thesis notes that even though modern life brings a new experience of the modern, in reality irrational habits and cultures such as popular customs, beliefs, and superstitions continue to exist in the daily lives of the common people. Religious spaces are the everyday field of common people and have abundant spatial significance, yet past urban research tends to neglect this. Religious spaces in the city are the field where modernity and superstition mix and collide; intellectuals, merchants, rulers, and common people show a rich variety in their explanations and uses of religious spaces. By studying the "superstition discourse" and "creative works", this research has discovered that "belief in the City God" has been particularly criticized and discussed by intellectuals in the Japanese colonial period, in its relations to the City God''s status as official in the netherworld and the yearly festival of Dadaocheng''s Xiahai Chenghuang celebrated by all of Taiwan. In the religious spaces of the belief in the City God there exists a power struggle between factors such as the economy, belief, exorcism, and domination, that has much significance on multiple levels. |
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