Research On The Spatial Presentation And Cultural Landscape Of Sun Mingjing’s Xikang Image

In 1939,Sun Mingjing,who was only 27 years old,followed the "Sino British Geng Chuankang scientific investigation team" to Xikang for scientific investigation.He became one of the domestic photographers who recorded Xikang through cameras earlier in this period.In the 1930 s,Sun Mingjing constructed a social image chronicle of Xikang by means of image,which not only includes the continuous development of material landscapes such as resource reserves,geographical transportation and technical forces,but also the traditional life of nomads.These images are an important reference for us to understand the social development of Xikang in the 1930 s,and greatly enrich the vision and development context of Chinese film and television anthropology.Unfortunately,the domestic research on Sun Mingjing’s Xikang image is relatively weak.Therefore,this paper will take Sun Mingjing’s Xikang image as the research object,combined with the social and political background and relevant newspaper literature at the same time,systematically sort out the development context and visual appearance of Sun Mingjing’s Xikang image,and discuss the relationship between image space construction and cultural landscape,in order to promote the research of Sun Mingjing’s Xikang image and early Chinese image history.Specifically,with the reproduction of visual media,Sun Mingjing imagined and constructed the style of Xikang from four dimensions: natural space,urban space,factory space and nomadic space.As a member of the geological and mining group of the investigation team,he recorded the image of Xikang’s resource reserves,geographical transportation and regional signs.The unique vision of scientific investigation made Sun Ming’s geographical image of Xikang different from the early random travel scenery photography,forming an accurate,clear and qualitative recorded image,and presenting the harmonious and cured natural scenery of Xikang as a whole.In the urban image,Sun Mingjing recorded a large amount of historical information about the transformation and change of urban social culture.We can see his attention and acceptance of multiculturalism.Whether it is new urban landscapes such as blocks and schools,or traditional cultural images such as temples and Tibetan dance,they all shine in these border cities with equal emphasis on the old and the new and the integration of China and the west,and construct an image space that contains both modern development and not stingy tradition and secular.In addition,Sun Mingjing pays attention to the industrial development that complements the city,and fully demonstrates the historical achievements of Xikang’s industrial production with the communication style of both pictures and texts and the logical image narration,shaping the image of tough,strong,humble and unassuming workers.Through the image reconstruction of industrial space,we can see the real picture of the construction of the "rear area" during the Anti-Japanese war.Finally,Sun Mingjing focuses on the daily life of traditional nomads in the process of social development in Xikang,focuses on the description of living space and body,shows the unique lifestyle and ethnic customs of grassland people,and forms a landscape of ethnic minorities with their own cultural beliefs.It can be said that Sun Mingjing’s Xikang image "preserved extremely valuable and reproducible fresh historical materials for Tibetan area during the period of the Republic of China",mapped the historical process of Xikang at the time of modern social transformation,and imagined and constructed a "hinterland Xikang" intertwined between modern development and ethnic history to the greatest extent.