Cultural Interpretation of Space and the Harmonious Development of China in Transition
Since 1980s,the research in western new cultural geography has turned from geographical approach to culture to cultural approach in geogra- phy,which features the interpretation of space in a cultural perspective and broaden the research of cultural geography.This paper argues that the concerning inthe interpretation of spacein western new cultural geography is of great value to that in China,which could be demonstrated in at least three aspects: First,it broadens the research and application of cultural geography. Then,it helps to the merging of cultural geography to other social and human sciences.In addition,it contributes to breaking a lot of limits such as superorganic nature of culture and the effect of elite culture,which promotes the development of the human geography study. This paper also argues that the experience of the western cultural geography can not be completely copied in the cultural space study in China because it is based on the background of post-modern and post-industrialized society and it shows overconcern in the interpretation of the modern urban landscape, the contest of social space and the cultural space and cultural politics represented power.As a contrast,it is showed that Chinese social cultural space mainly have four characteristics on the whole:Firstly,focusing on the central task of economic construction strengthen the contemporary study to the reconstruction of economic space;Secondly,fruitful results of China's economic development has greatly benefited from participation of globalization;Thirdly, the rapid economic development accompany the widening gap within the income and changing in the structure of social stratification.Fourthly,changes in the mode of economic development may lead to a new transition in social and economic space.While,the Chinese values of increasing diverse makes it sense that interpret space from the perspective of culture or values.Therefore,interpreting the cultural space in Chinese perspective will have great effects on the construction of industrialization,urbanization,internationalization, modernization,ecologization,and the harmonious development of Chinese economy and society in transition period.