THE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMING SPACE UNDER GAZE OF THE OTHER: A CASE STUDY OF QUYI TEAHOUSE IN GUANGZHOU RONGHUALOU
TAO Wei1,2, CHENG Zi-yuan1
1. School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
2. Center for Social and Cultural Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Abstract：Cantonese opera is a special local music form. It is very popular in Guangdong province, Guangxi province, Macao, Hong Kong and colony of Chinese. The study of Cantonese opera has been concentrated on the artistry of performance, but rarely revealed the interactive significance of different people contained in the micro space. This article tries to use the Gaze theory and adopt qualitative description method to explore how the material space, space function and social space of Ronghua Teahouse changed and constructed under the interaction of seeing and being seeing. In the meantime, it also attempts to explore how the changing of performing space effected the survive or perish of Cantonese opera, which has been chosen as non-material cultural heritage. Meanwhile, the traditional functions such as social contact, bite and sup, recreation are being weakened and changed under the deprivation of other performing cultural. So, the performing space of Cantonese opera is a productive space, the construction of social relations is the result of the pursuit of identity, basing on the pursuit of economic interests. Secondly, gazing prompts the subject of performing and operators to self-examination, it becomes an important force of shaping the material structure of performing space. Finally, the performing space of Cantonese opera stores the collective memory of "LaoGuang", gazing the performing space, people quest the identity, so the performing space place a role in holding a cultural system of a particular group together.
陶伟, 程梓源. 他者凝视下粤剧粤曲展演空间分析——广州荣华楼曲艺茶座个案研究[J]. 人文地理, 2015, 30(2): 50-57,140.
TAO Wei, CHENG Zi-yuan. THE ANALYSIS OF PERFORMING SPACE UNDER GAZE OF THE OTHER: A CASE STUDY OF QUYI TEAHOUSE IN GUANGZHOU RONGHUALOU. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2015, 30(2): 50-57,140.
