"Civilization" and "culture" are a group of Key words in social and cultural history.At the end of the Qing Dynasty and in the early Republic of China,"civilization" meant movements toward the future,change and progress,"culture" meant backwardness,conservativeness and closeness in the past.Since 1920's,"culture" was endowed with moral and value dimension of meaning,"civilization" was transformed into greed and material enjoyment and the symbol of desire.Modern Shanghai was endowed with the "civilization" for the city's symbol in the course of introducing Western material civilization.At the same time,Beijing was trying to get rid of the traditional and conservative image to be branded with "civilized" city but Beijing had to be in the shadow of Shanghai.After 1928,the national government conferred Peking to "culture" of the urban imagination,and this had recognition from intellectuals.Since then,the "civilized" Shanghai gave way to "cultural" Peking,Through mutual construction,Beijing and Shanghai had formed respective urban imagination.%清末民初,＂文明＂意味着面向未来的运动、变化和进步;＂文化＂则意味着面向过去的落后、保守与封闭。1920年代以后,＂文化＂被赋予道德与价值层面的涵义;＂文明＂则蜕变为贪婪与物质享受与欲望的象征。近代上海在渐进引入西方物质文明的过程中,被自然地赋予了＂文明＂的城市想象;同时期的北京则因努力摆脱被视作传统与守旧形象的烙印,迈向＂文明＂的时代坐标而不得不隐匿在上海的阴影之下。1928年后,国民政府赋予北平以＂文化＂的都市想象,并得到知识分子的认同,上海＂文明＂因此让位于北平＂文化＂。北京与上海通过将对方视作＂他者＂的互构,形成各自的都市想象。
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