From liberating production to unleashing consumption: Mapping landscapes of power in Beijing |
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| Authors: | Patricia M. Thornton |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Zoology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK;2. Thames Valley Health Protection Unit, Health Protection Agency, Chilton, OX11 0RQ, UK;1. School of Communication, Florida State University, C3100 University Center, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States;2. Department of Political Science, 113 Holden Hall, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, United States;1. Department of Urology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People''s Republic of China;2. Department of General Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, People''s Republic of China;3. Institute of Dermatology Surgery, China Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Nanjing, People''s Republic of China;4. Department of Dermatology, Jiangsu Province Official Hospital, Nanjing, People''s Republic of China;5. Department of Urology, Jiangsu Province Official Hospital, Nanjing, People''s Republic of China;6. Department of Dermatology, Shanghai Skin Diseases Hospital, Shanghai, People''s Republic of China;1. Social Anthropology, Durham University, United Kingdom;2. Human Geography, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | This article offers an analysis of two locales in downtown Beijing nominally set aside for public use, Tiananmen Square and The Place, as successively linked landscapes of power that define the shifting and relations between market and place negotiated by the Chinese Communist Party-state over time. However, whereas Zukin (1993) argues that such landscapes lack coherent values because of their subordination to capitalism’s haphazard process of “creative destruction,” a salient feature of Beijing’s shifting landscapes of power is the authoritarian Party-state’s persistent mediation of market relations, and its subordination of the contradictions between market and place to the changing needs of the regime under market reform. Despite their apparent differences in intent and design, the shopping mall has eclipsed the public square as a key urban site through which the Party-state seeks to build a self-conscious and cohesive socioeconomic class of subjects over which and for which it seeks to rule. |
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