This essay employs the recent development of traditional medicine in Lingnan, South China, and th... more This essay employs the recent development of traditional medicine in Lingnan, South China, and the role it plays in the popularization of Chinese herbal cooling tea as an example to lay bare how a traditional medicine-focused nationalist project is enacted and enabled at the local level. The first part of the essay explains how the resulting discursive practice of traditional medicine reinforces the link between nationalized Chinese culture and health security agenda, shaping an ethic of communal biosecurity. The second part foregrounds the importance of scale, especially that of the provincial and the regional, in scrutinizing the ways through which the nation-wide Chinese medicine policies come into force in contemporary China. Thirdly, by looking at the incident of the joint application for promoting cooling tea as a state-authorized intangible cultural heritage among Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau, we emphasize the leading role of the Guangdong provincial government in promotin...
This essay looks at the mobility of pregnant Mainland women in Hong Kong to expose the reverberat... more This essay looks at the mobility of pregnant Mainland women in Hong Kong to expose the reverberations of the SAR government's immigration policies relating to cross-border birth tourism.
This essay employs the recent development of traditional medicine in Lingnan, South China, and th... more This essay employs the recent development of traditional medicine in Lingnan, South China, and the role it plays in the popularization of Chinese herbal cooling tea as an example to lay bare how a traditional medicine-focused nationalist project is enacted and enabled at the local level. The first part of the essay explains how the resulting discursive practice of traditional medicine reinforces the link between nationalized Chinese culture and health security agenda, shaping an ethic of communal biosecurity. The second part foregrounds the importance of scale, especially that of the provincial and the regional, in scrutinizing the ways through which the nationwide Chinese medicine policies come into force in contemporary China. Thirdly, by looking at the incident of the joint application for promoting cooling tea as a state-authorized intangible cultural heritage among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, we emphasize the leading role of the Guangdong provincial government in promoting Chinese medicine in the region. The final section is devoted to unraveling the disputes involved in such a regionalist scheme.
本文探討臺灣政府及媒體的觀光政策論述所建構的「兩蔣」和「陸客」，其所體現的「陸客」觀光凝視，如何（去）政治化的再現大陸觀光客和臺灣地方景點的象徵意義，並為兩岸的跨境觀光流動進行文化治理。「陸客」... more 本文探討臺灣政府及媒體的觀光政策論述所建構的「兩蔣」和「陸客」，其所體現的「陸客」觀光凝視，如何（去）政治化的再現大陸觀光客和臺灣地方景點的象徵意義，並為兩岸的跨境觀光流動進行文化治理。「陸客」凝視的論述強調觀光客和觀光地景的出現所帶來的經濟利多，藉此為觀光牽涉的兩岸關係和跨界活動和提供「去政治化」的經濟想像，從中隱藏兩者背後引申的政治想像，也作為規劃兩蔣文化園區和吸引大陸觀光客到訪的合法性依據。 當以經濟想像去政治化的再現「兩蔣」和「陸客」時，其中潛藏著許多再政治化的可能。當中，「兩蔣」代表的蔣氏政權能以觀光消費再鞏固其「領袖」、「偉人」政治想像，而「陸客」身分則陷入兩岸之間經濟發展和政治爭議的張力。在兩岸經貿互動日漸頻繁之際，本文嘗試釐清觀光論述下的經濟想像和資本流動涉及的政治再現，以及由此引申兩岸之間的政治爭議，從中突顯兩岸關係中的政治、經濟、社會和文化等層次對兩岸關係和人民互動的重要性。
This essay employs the recent development of traditional medicine in Lingnan, South China, and th... more This essay employs the recent development of traditional medicine in Lingnan, South China, and the role it plays in the popularization of Chinese herbal cooling tea as an example to lay bare how a traditional medicine-focused nationalist project is enacted and enabled at the local level. The first part of the essay explains how the resulting discursive practice of traditional medicine reinforces the link between nationalized Chinese culture and health security agenda, shaping an ethic of communal biosecurity. The second part foregrounds the importance of scale, especially that of the provincial and the regional, in scrutinizing the ways through which the nation-wide Chinese medicine policies come into force in contemporary China. Thirdly, by looking at the incident of the joint application for promoting cooling tea as a state-authorized intangible cultural heritage among Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau, we emphasize the leading role of the Guangdong provincial government in promotin...
This essay looks at the mobility of pregnant Mainland women in Hong Kong to expose the reverberat... more This essay looks at the mobility of pregnant Mainland women in Hong Kong to expose the reverberations of the SAR government's immigration policies relating to cross-border birth tourism.
This essay employs the recent development of traditional medicine in Lingnan, South China, and th... more This essay employs the recent development of traditional medicine in Lingnan, South China, and the role it plays in the popularization of Chinese herbal cooling tea as an example to lay bare how a traditional medicine-focused nationalist project is enacted and enabled at the local level. The first part of the essay explains how the resulting discursive practice of traditional medicine reinforces the link between nationalized Chinese culture and health security agenda, shaping an ethic of communal biosecurity. The second part foregrounds the importance of scale, especially that of the provincial and the regional, in scrutinizing the ways through which the nationwide Chinese medicine policies come into force in contemporary China. Thirdly, by looking at the incident of the joint application for promoting cooling tea as a state-authorized intangible cultural heritage among Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, we emphasize the leading role of the Guangdong provincial government in promoting Chinese medicine in the region. The final section is devoted to unraveling the disputes involved in such a regionalist scheme.
本文探討臺灣政府及媒體的觀光政策論述所建構的「兩蔣」和「陸客」，其所體現的「陸客」觀光凝視，如何（去）政治化的再現大陸觀光客和臺灣地方景點的象徵意義，並為兩岸的跨境觀光流動進行文化治理。「陸客」... more 本文探討臺灣政府及媒體的觀光政策論述所建構的「兩蔣」和「陸客」，其所體現的「陸客」觀光凝視，如何（去）政治化的再現大陸觀光客和臺灣地方景點的象徵意義，並為兩岸的跨境觀光流動進行文化治理。「陸客」凝視的論述強調觀光客和觀光地景的出現所帶來的經濟利多，藉此為觀光牽涉的兩岸關係和跨界活動和提供「去政治化」的經濟想像，從中隱藏兩者背後引申的政治想像，也作為規劃兩蔣文化園區和吸引大陸觀光客到訪的合法性依據。 當以經濟想像去政治化的再現「兩蔣」和「陸客」時，其中潛藏著許多再政治化的可能。當中，「兩蔣」代表的蔣氏政權能以觀光消費再鞏固其「領袖」、「偉人」政治想像，而「陸客」身分則陷入兩岸之間經濟發展和政治爭議的張力。在兩岸經貿互動日漸頻繁之際，本文嘗試釐清觀光論述下的經濟想像和資本流動涉及的政治再現，以及由此引申兩岸之間的政治爭議，從中突顯兩岸關係中的政治、經濟、社會和文化等層次對兩岸關係和人民互動的重要性。
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的切入點，串連國族和地方身體象徵的民族性。之後本文以「涼茶市遺」活動為例， 說明中醫藥方象徵的嶺南地域文化成為生命政治治理的動力與區域產業合作的論述平台。廣東省於2006年推動「涼茶申遺」向中央申報地方藥企生產的涼茶飲料為兩件勿質文化遺產」。本研究指出「涼茶申遺」主張的「嶺南人」體質與風俗文化， 其實呼應了中央與地方以「社會事業」概念涵蓋公益服務興建業發展的政策方針，以維護人民健康和地方文化為名， 推動政府發展地方產業相關政策，並促成地方政府與區域中醫藥企業的合作。最後丈章討論申遺活動與涼茶產業區域合作隱含的地緣政治操作: 廣東省政府為鞏固廣東省在中醫藥市場的影響力，聯合粵港澳共同申遺， 確立了三地同屬涼茶象徵的嶺南中醫藥文化區域， 並強調涼茶為區域間共有的文化遺產， 但將廣西排除於嶺南文化的正統性之外。換言之，「嶺南」中醫藥文化論述形塑的地方文化意象，並非本質化的現象或概念，而是複雜的經濟、丈化與政治力之施作場域，其中牽涉新的空間想像與區域身份的重組， 規範了行動者的參與，也決定了地方之間的地緣政治。
當以經濟想像去政治化的再現「兩蔣」和「陸客」時，其中潛藏著許多再政治化的可能。當中，「兩蔣」代表的蔣氏政權能以觀光消費再鞏固其「領袖」、「偉人」政治想像，而「陸客」身分則陷入兩岸之間經濟發展和政治爭議的張力。在兩岸經貿互動日漸頻繁之際，本文嘗試釐清觀光論述下的經濟想像和資本流動涉及的政治再現，以及由此引申兩岸之間的政治爭議，從中突顯兩岸關係中的政治、經濟、社會和文化等層次對兩岸關係和人民互動的重要性。
的切入點，串連國族和地方身體象徵的民族性。之後本文以「涼茶市遺」活動為例， 說明中醫藥方象徵的嶺南地域文化成為生命政治治理的動力與區域產業合作的論述平台。廣東省於2006年推動「涼茶申遺」向中央申報地方藥企生產的涼茶飲料為兩件勿質文化遺產」。本研究指出「涼茶申遺」主張的「嶺南人」體質與風俗文化， 其實呼應了中央與地方以「社會事業」概念涵蓋公益服務興建業發展的政策方針，以維護人民健康和地方文化為名， 推動政府發展地方產業相關政策，並促成地方政府與區域中醫藥企業的合作。最後丈章討論申遺活動與涼茶產業區域合作隱含的地緣政治操作: 廣東省政府為鞏固廣東省在中醫藥市場的影響力，聯合粵港澳共同申遺， 確立了三地同屬涼茶象徵的嶺南中醫藥文化區域， 並強調涼茶為區域間共有的文化遺產， 但將廣西排除於嶺南文化的正統性之外。換言之，「嶺南」中醫藥文化論述形塑的地方文化意象，並非本質化的現象或概念，而是複雜的經濟、丈化與政治力之施作場域，其中牽涉新的空間想像與區域身份的重組， 規範了行動者的參與，也決定了地方之間的地緣政治。
當以經濟想像去政治化的再現「兩蔣」和「陸客」時，其中潛藏著許多再政治化的可能。當中，「兩蔣」代表的蔣氏政權能以觀光消費再鞏固其「領袖」、「偉人」政治想像，而「陸客」身分則陷入兩岸之間經濟發展和政治爭議的張力。在兩岸經貿互動日漸頻繁之際，本文嘗試釐清觀光論述下的經濟想像和資本流動涉及的政治再現，以及由此引申兩岸之間的政治爭議，從中突顯兩岸關係中的政治、經濟、社會和文化等層次對兩岸關係和人民互動的重要性。