"the Same Root" Cultural Performances

Sine the People's Republic of Chinese has found, Taiwan issue has always been one of the biggest affairs of reunification of China. That policy, named "One country, two systems", had been carrying out, brought on the old the policy by force into the soft propaganda works upon these issues. Among propaganda works, to build artificial scenery about relations across the Taiwan Straits has become one of the importance approaches of propaganda policy to Taiwan affairs. Under the circumstance of these affairs, local government also has been assorting with resource in hand according to the special city layout. Chinese Fujian-Taiwan's Relation Museum in Quanzhou city and Taiwan Folk Village in Xiamen city display the so much common on social and cultural aspects in both economic and political spheres, which became a clue to understand "One Root" representation system. I will figure out that nation, scholars, media, actors, participants and all sorts of displays, scenes have been performing one "social drama" under grand narrative about propaganda works on Taiwan issue.This dissertation applies the concept of "Three-dimension Space", put by Henri Lefebvre, as the analytical framework for culture performance, to understand what the "One Root" in Chinese discourse has became auto- representation system currently. Those have direct affect on both artificial scenery of spatial building, topicalization and practice. The dissertation manages to discus a case of theory constructed, put three elements (actor, audience and cultural script) into the complex, multi-dimensional interactions. I will focus on the social and cultural force in consumption, and national ideology to think (1) how to shape the imagine of cultural scenery and to give the meanings, in a sense, to make agreement with public culture; (2) how representation drive the change of meaning among institutions on main discourse for "One Root" by means of memory, action and image; (3) to regard the importance of the subjectivity and practice of meaning reading of viewers. The action of reading is how to entangle into the structure of cultural performance in reason, and performs their subjectivity by experience of body movement.In research method, this dissertation use participant observation and informal structural interview together to do the cross-place fieldworks. The view continue academic context of cultural performance studies, and introduce the currently outcomes relative to visual culture studies as analysis tool. All of the material in this dissertation is looked on as the negotiation text. I will stress on that ethnography is negotiation. All of researching subject has been constructing the performing text then and there. Different from the ignorance of other studies to the integrity views of actor, audience and cultural script, the dissertation attempt to use the concept of space into one framework of interacting relationship. I will stress on two points in special: First is how the power of discourse and knowledge have effects on the process of meaning coding and decoding. Second is which way actor and audience make agreement on the meaning reading by spacial practice.The content includes four parts: preface, brief description, main body and conclusion. Firstly, preface introduce study question, theory retrospection, the current research on the issue of theme park and museum, and the method and main content used in this paper. The first chapter is the brief description. It introduces the basis background of the studying cases, including location, purpose of city plan, and the political and economic circumstances in process of building artificial scenery. I will the social structure shaped by social history, urban technical arrangement and the orientation of official discourse together under "One Root" discourse influence. The second, third and fourth chapter are the main body of dissertation. Arrangement for chapters is taken by division from the concepts of "conceived space" and "practice space" advanced by Lefebvre. The former two chapters belong to the layer of conceived space, to discuss people how to take full use of academic knowledge to control space consciously, in order for conformity of space in themed and systemic ways. The next chapter (the fourth) is the layer of practice, to discus the representational action of social members, who put their various image into the reconstructing spacial practice. First of all, the second chapter focus on the theme park and museum to be construct the symbol of social space of artificial scenery to present "One Root" discourse. In this building process, consuming culture and ideology make use of academic skills to adhere the "One Root" discourse on the symbols of building. The third chapter stress on the systematization of narrative in visual imagine of exhibitions in both theme park and museum space. Description is made on the arrangement of words content for display narrative in logical way, which can shape one consecutive, orderly text for performance. This chapter pay attention on all sorts of text, like company story, legend, display outline, that become an important part of "One Root" discourse in combining different symbols of objects or material in new field by the designs of "refining intention". The former is the technical building; the latter is narrative talking and systematization for arrangement. The fourth embody the body movement and looking practice of visitors and audience in space, to discuss the continual process of symbol reading. Between them, the agency of all subjects is put into the interactive position between knowledge structure and legal order, which will in a sense make agreement of meanings in the end. The conclusion sums up the main points upwards, and reflects what other studies upon my research.In a word, dissertation provides a view from the conception of space into considering the case of locality, shows the interaction among audience, actor and cultural script in practice of space, by two artificial sceneries studies. The finial conclusions are below. Firstly, the cultural performance in both cases present the reading today and structural replacement on the value of "Nation-Home Isomorph". Secondly, the division between actor and audience can be proper replaced by the other conception of "producer" and "consumer". Thirdly, all of subjects in cases are active agencies. They participate actively in the special practice with coding and decoding. On one hand, the constructing discourse is penetrating into various actions of all subjects from top to bottom. On the other, what all subjects are doing are not the passiveness of education and undertaking like Foucault, Debord and Baudrillard, but the receiving and reproducing the meanings of discourse on their own initiative.