The city is the gathering place of cultural development and spiritual civilization, the construction and development of the city is related to its historical tradition and urban personality, and the city spirit is the soul of a city, which not only highlights the historical style of the city, but also presents the cultural characteristics of the city, thus leading the future development of the city. Historically, Shanghai is not only a key hub for the inheritance and innovation of traditional Jiangnan culture, but also a frontier for the convergence and transformation of modern Western culture, and a red cultural source for the CPC to forge its original intention. On the afternoon of October 22, the high-end forum "History, Connotation and Era Value of Shanghai Culture" was held at Shanghai Normal University, which focused on the new mission, new goals and new requirements of shanghai cultural innovation in the new era, and jointly discussed how to explore the history, connotation and era value of Shanghai culture and shape the spiritual core of Shanghai's urban soft power.
The era value of Shanghai culture in the new era
In recent years, Shanghai Normal University has made fruitful contributions in the field of urban culture research, and has carried out a series of studies around Jiangnan culture, Shanghai culture and red culture, and has achieved relatively fruitful results. Yuan Wen, president of Shanghai Normal University, said in her speech that the school is preparing to build the Shanghai Culture Research Center for the New Era of Shanghai Normal University, with the goal of building an urban cultural research brand with large databases, academic publications, high-end summits, forum forums, high-end think tanks, and information release functions in the city, and contributing to the "enhancing the taste of cultural construction and shaping the spiritual core of Shanghai's urban soft power".
Wang Weisong, secretary of the party group of the Shanghai Federation of Social Societies, congratulated the convening of the high-end forum on the "history, connotation and era value of Shanghai culture", and believed that comprehensively enhancing the brand identity of "Shanghai culture" and enhancing the global influence of Shanghai culture is an important topic for comprehensively promoting the construction of a cultural metropolis and promoting the prosperity and development of Shanghai culture, promoting the innovative development of Shanghai culture, and benchmarking the construction goals of an international cultural metropolis in the new era and the national strategy for the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta region. Benchmark the historical node of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. It is hoped that experts and scholars will show their strengths, universities and various scientific research institutions will make full use of the existing academic resources, disciplinary advantages and education and teaching backgrounds to jointly provide talent support, intellectual services and knowledge support, and actively promote the latest research results of Shanghai culture to feed the sustainable economic and social development of Shanghai.
The name and reality of Haipai culture
Professor Xiong Yuezhi, president of the China Urban Research Association, held in his keynote speech entitled "The Name of The Culture of the Shanghai School and the Characteristics of the Times" that the discussion of the issue of the Culture of the Shanghai School will inevitably involve issues such as broad and narrow, name and reality, new and old, and will also inevitably involve the characteristics of the times. Regarding the issue of the Generalized Hai School and the Narrow Sense Hai School, since the formation of the Hai School culture in modern times, it can be divided into four controversies. The first time was in the 1920s and 1930s, when there was mainly a discussion in the Peking Opera community around Haipai Peking Opera. The second was from 1933 to 1934, when the criticism of Shanghai cultural people, including left-wing writers, by the Beijing cultural people represented by Shen Congwen, triggered a mutual rebuttal. The third time was from 1947 to 1948, progressive scholars Such as Xia Kangnong and Yang Han published several articles positively evaluating the value and status of Haipai culture in modern China, believing that it was The city of Shanghai and Haipai culture that represented the direction of the progress of modern Chinese culture. The fourth time was after the reform and opening up, in the mid-to-late 1980s, Shanghai discussed the urban development strategy, and the ideological and cultural circles discussed the cultural development of Shanghai accordingly, which triggered a discussion about The Shanghai school culture that lasted for several years. On the issue of name and reality, the reality of The Culture of the Shanghai School is far greater than the specific scope of the "Shanghai School" discussed in the fine arts, theater, and literary circles at that time, and it should naturally include the production methods, lifestyles, values, and aesthetic tastes of the Shanghainese at that time, and should include the commercial culture, civic culture, revolutionary culture, left-wing culture, red culture, and Cultural exchanges between China and the West in Shanghai at that time. As for the problem of the old and new Hai schools, there is no need to make a hard distinction, because the modern Hai school culture contains the genes of the current Shanghai school culture. The current Haipai culture is an extension, development and sublimation of modern Haipai culture.
Xiong Yuezhi further emphasized that in view of the characteristics of Shanghai's urban culture in the new era, in addition to the spirit of the city and the characteristics of the city, we can emphasize another three points, namely, responsibility, refinement and refinement. Emphasizing the sense of responsibility, it is intended to highlight Shanghai's participation in world competition on behalf of the country, highlight the role of forerunner and leader, and strive to solve the problem of the West's "stuck neck" in core technology for the country, and also echoes the spirit of the founding of the party in modern Shanghai, echoing with the red culture; emphasizing fineness, highlighting the good management of Shanghai's urban management, one network office, one network unified management, and remarkable achievements in fighting the new crown virus pneumonia, these are fine performances; emphasizing refinement, intending to highlight Shanghai's beautiful environment, quality of life, community temperature, and buildings can be read. Livable, workable, travelable.
The diversity and modernity of Haipai culture
Professor Chen Sihe, Director of Fudan University Library, interprets Haipai culture from three dimensions: the diversity of Haipai culture, the relationship between Haipai culture and Jiangnan culture, and the tradition of Haipai culture. When talking about diversity, Professor Chen Sihe pointed out that The Culture of the Shanghai School has a mixture of Chinese and Western cultures, an international perspective, and multiple attributes such as the five lakes and the four seas. It is this constant convergence and integration of East and West that provides a steady stream of vitality for The Shanghai culture. Regarding the relationship between The Haipai culture and the Jiangnan culture, he believes that although the traces of the traditional Shanghai local culture have been gradually diminished in the Haipai culture, its influence still remains profoundly in the surrounding areas of Shanghai. And this culture constitutes an important link between Jiangnan culture and Haipai culture. He called on scholars to pay attention to the excavation and research of traditional Shanghai local culture in future research. Finally, Professor Chen pointed out that the production modernity and consumption modernity formed in modern Shanghai have jointly shaped two traditions of Shanghai culture, one is the civic culture and the other is the working class, and the study of both cannot be abandoned.
The particularity of Haipai culture
Professor Zha Qinghua, Dean of the School of Humanities of Shanghai Normal University, presided over the keynote speech session. Professor An Keqiang of the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Marseille in France reviewed the origin and process of his research on Shanghai, emphasizing that shanghai is regarded as a place where various cultures blend, which may be the key code for the study of Shanghai culture. Professor Lu Hanchao of the Allen Department of Humanities at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States believes that Haipai culture is extremely inclusive. Shanghai has always maintained the mentality of opening up to the outside world and embracing all kinds of rivers, and actively trades and exchanges with merchants at home and abroad, which is a very rare quality in the closed late Qing society. Professor Wang Di of the University of Macau pointed out that Shanghai is an important frame of reference for Urban Studies in China. The study of Shanghai provides a sample for the study of China's modernization, commercialization and globalization, and provides a rich resource for our understanding of China, Chinese cities and Modern and Contemporary Chinese culture. Rong Yueming, a researcher at the Institute of Literature of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that The Haipai culture is both a historical culture and a regional culture. The latter is both a summary of Shanghai's culture and a summary of the city's characteristics. Today's study of Haipai culture should focus on the refinement and advocacy of its inner urban spirit and character. Professor Li Tiangang of the Department of Religious Studies of Fudan University believes that Jiangnan culture and Haipai culture have a relationship of inheritance, and in addition to identity, there are also differences in the times. It is necessary to deeply grasp the historical motives for the sustained prosperity of The Haipai culture since the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, and excavate the "polder spirit" of the Haipai culture, which not only precipitates the consciousness of the Jiangnan people, but also publicizes the people's spirit of struggle. Professor Chen Jianhua of the Institute of Ancient Books of Fudan University summarizes The Culture of Shanghai into multiple dimensions such as hybridity, mobility, innovation, publicity and landscape from the perspective of personal life experience. For the refinement of Shanghai culture, it is necessary to start from the perceptual experience of the public, grasp the complex influence of Chinese and Western culture, understand the power relations of The Chinese and Foreign, open up different horizons such as emotion, landscape, fashion, women, literature and art, and re-look at The Shanghai culture with a new world view.
The study of Haipai culture requires interdisciplinary communication and multi-perspective integration
At the final summary stage of the conference, Professor Su Zhiliang of the School of Humanities of Shanghai Normal University pointed out that Shanghai culture is a unique culture of Shanghai City. It is rooted in Chinese culture, conceived in Jiangnan culture, formed in the fusion of Chinese and foreign cultures, continuously evolved and sublimated in the urban development of Shanghai, and integrated with red culture and Jiangnan culture. The connotation and characteristics of Shanghai culture in the new era can be interpreted as: the open character of the international city, the innovative consciousness of daring to be the first, the feeling of home and country that has been applied to the world, the spirit of self-discipline and trustworthiness, and the inclusive and pragmatic way of dealing with the world. Nowadays, Haipai culture has been integrated into the fabric of the city and the marrow of the citizens. The strong vitality of Shanghai culture stems from its pursuit of excellence on the basis of the sea and the river, so it has the courage to change and innovate, which is also closely related to its unswerving adherence to reality, the world and the future. Professor Wu Junfan of the School of Humanities of Shanghai Normal University believes that for a long time, historians have paid less attention to the geographical environment of Shanghai in different historical periods and the civilization resources and cultural heritage related to it, ignoring the marine factors that have always existed in the process of Shanghai's growth. She pointed out that Shanghai actually has a rich historical and geographical heritage, including sea ponds since the Tang Dynasty, natural coastline remains, countless ancient piers, observation decks, tide shelters, etc. with military coastal defense roles and salt production functions, as well as trade seaports. From the perspective of regional ecological environment, the foundation of Shanghai's Haipai culture is very deep, and the study of Haipai culture requires interdisciplinary exchanges and multi-perspective expansion.
It is reported that Shanghai Normal University is preparing to set up the New Era Shanghai Culture Research Center, which will carry out work in four major research areas in the future: First, the study of urban problems in the new era, focusing on urban theory research, carrying out interdisciplinary research, carrying out urban practice research, and urban culture tracing back to the source. The second is the study of Haipai culture in the new era, including the study of the resources, historical traceability and spiritual meaning of Haipai culture. The third is the combination of cultural tourism in the new era, especially how to make tourism a carrier for better cultural content interpretation and interpretation, and to carry out research on the consumption of Cultural Tourism in the new era. In addition, it will also involve the relationship between people and places in the new era of Haipai culture, overseas Shanghai studies, and the study of the combination of Haipai culture and maritime history. On the basis of strengthening academic research, the center will also strengthen the construction of databases and platforms, and eventually build a "Haipai Cultural Research Data Service Platform" that provides literature and data services, and build a special website of "Haipai Cultural Digital Memory", to build a Map of Haipai Cultural Knowledge with Fangzhi historical materials, travelogue literature, other Internet data and ancient and modern text data, form an effective supplement to the Haipai Cultural Research Database, and ultimately provide users with "Haipai Cultural Research Academic Search Engine".
Column Editor-in-Chief: Wang Duo
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