| Status | 已發表Published |
| 公共空间与公共领域：东西方比较视野下的中国城市公共生活 | |
| Alternative Title | Public space and public sphere: Public life in the Chinse city under an east-west comparative perspective |
| Wang, D. | |
| 2018-07-01 | |
| Source Publication | 南国学术
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| ISSN | 2311-7370 |
| Pages | 404-415 |
| Abstract | In recent years, scholars of Western history have increasingly paid their attention to public life, providing a new angle of examining the transformation of urban history and local politics. The Chinese teahouse has similar functions with those of the tavern, coffeehouse, and saloon and shares many common features with them. As public places, they provide necessary facilities for community life and offer opportunities for ordinary families to run small businesses. The Chinese teahouse and American saloon are most common and cheapest with a stable and flexible business. They provide their service for the floating population in the day but for residents who live in the neighborhood at night. They welcome all levels of customers but mainly serve ordinary people. Speaking of public space and public life, it is inevitably to discuss “public sphere,” a concept created by German scholar Jürgen Habermas. There has been a long debate among the scholars of China if the concept can be used in analysis of Chinese society. It is important to explore the issues how physical space is transformed into social space and how such space is politicized. Actually, Habermas’ public sphere is not only a social and political space but also a physical space. From the view of physical public sphere, the Chinese teahouse has played a similar role to that of the European coffeehouse and American saloon, where becomes a place of people communicating and expressing their opinions as a political stage although they have different characters. China’s open-up and reform beginning from the late 1970s has driven the development of market economy. As a result, the teahouse and public life have revived after suppressed for over a decade. Once again, the teahouse becomes the gathering place for all kinds of people and professions. People enjoy socialization and pastime as well as conduct economic and cultural activities. With the expansion of commerce and commercial culture and rise of the middle class, the government control has constantly been relaxed. As a public space with high vitality, the teahouse has made contributions to the return of public life and public sphere in China. |
| Keyword | Chinese City Public Space Public Sphere Teahouse Coffeehouse Saloon |
| Language | 其他語言Others |
| The Source to Article | PB_Publication |
| PUB ID | 38260 |
| Document Type | Journal article |
| Collection | DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Wang, D.. 公共空间与公共领域：东西方比较视野下的中国城市公共生活[J]. 南国学术, 2018, 404-415. |
| APA | Wang, D..(2018). 公共空间与公共领域：东西方比较视野下的中国城市公共生活. 南国学术, 404-415. |
| MLA | Wang, D.."公共空间与公共领域：东西方比较视野下的中国城市公共生活".南国学术 (2018):404-415. |
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