The Demarginalized Frontier:Multiple Variation of Shenyang's Spatial Change and the Modernity in Northeast China
This paper focuses on the long-term evolution in the core urban area of Shenyang from the early Qing Dynasty to the end of World War Ⅱ.However,this article themed on the evolution of urban space is not a study of urban history,but reveals the special path of modernity in the northeast by the arrangement of different powers in the urban space.The core academic inquiry is how the northeast frontier unfolds the narrative of"modern China",a unified multi-ethnic community.The article proposes that the changes in the urban form of Shenyang vividly reflect the diverse variations of the modernity process for northeastern China.From being an ordinary garrison city in the Ming Dynasty to become the largest city outside the Great Wall in the Qing Dynasty,and then develop to be the most important industrial and commercial center in Northeast China and the whole country in the 20th century,Shenyang has witnessed the urban development encompassing a series of significant themes in the formation,transformation,and reshaping of modern China.One continuous phenomenon,which is a pair of seemingly contradictory dynamic trajectories,is Northeast China being continually identified as a special"frontier"and the gradual disappearance of the"marginalization"of this frontier.
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