This project studies the intricate relationship between religion and urban space by focusing on the local history and changing religious landscape of Jiangbeicheng, a river town on the upper Yangtze River, during the imperial, Republican, and socialist periods from the late Qing to the present.
本課題聚焦江北城內宗教文化和城市景觀的歷史變遷，梳理自明清以來，江北城在帝制晚期、民國、以及1949年之後社會主義建設和當代中國等不同歷史時期所經歷的城市景觀的改變，及其背後宗教、文化、社會和國家不同力量之間的斡旋、衝突、妥協與融合。
The changing cityscape of Jiangbeicheng provides a concrete means for understanding the role of religious competition in the historical process of building urban China. Focusing on religion in an urban setting, this study will offer a micro-historical perspective of how local experience is shaped by and fits into changing political discourses on religion, society and urban development in modern China.
江北城城市景觀的歷史變遷，為我們提供了一個長時段中具體而微的研究對象，去理解不同宗教在現代中國城市發展過程中所經歷的競爭與妥協。希望江北城的個案研究，能提供一個微觀歷史的視角，去探討現代中國城市發展的過程中，宗教、社會、和國家所扮演的不同角色，及其對現代中國發展的影響。
Project Investigator : Dr. Ji Li
項目主管：李紀 博士
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Modern Languages and Culture, Faculty of Arts
The University of Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 3917-5774 Fax: (852) 2559-6143
Email: liji66@hku.hk