The existence of objects reflects a certain stage in the historical process of society.
At this time, objects constitute the outlook of life of Chinese groups in foreign countries.
Its physical presence helps locate, define, and freeze in time a flleting, transitory experience,
and bring back into ordinary experience something of the quality of an extraordinary experience.
- BeverlyGordon(1986,p.135)
As ‘Chinese space’, These elements embody material and symbolic connections with the notion of a Chinese homeland. According to Christiansen (2003, p.5) ‘Chinatown’ ‘is an urban space for people from different Chinese backgrounds at the same time as it is a miniature replica of an imagined.
Through interviews and surveys, I found that their memory content is constantly changing and abundant, at the same time, the concept of personal identity and family is constantly being constructed.
So I use the form of contradictory space to express this contrast. The fragments of their memories of their hometown make up this contradictory space. Memory is to repeat some things constantly, like certain things, and also to show the intersection of time and the repetition of space.
So I use the form of contradictory space to express this contrast. The fragments of their memories of their hometown make up this contradictory space. Memory is to repeat some things constantly, like certain things, and also to show the intersection of time and the repetition of space.
These classifications come from the memory of immigrants, which forms a new narrative style, about rebuilding memory and familiarity. As an emotional connection, these substances and memory trigger a series of connections.
Samuel Hynes once pointed out: One of the function in memory as an indisputable function of the individual brain is a sort of mental function, through which we preserves or restores our past and past events. ( Green 2004，37) Therefore, memory is people inheriting the past in present, a significant method to maintain different cultural heritage and identity. Our everyday life, works, feelings even affections are all hanging onto it, years after years, we are all unceasingly following this rule. While digging deep into people’s daily life, Bergson proposed a “Habitual memory” theory, and explained “the people whom are material entity themselves also act as a carrier, are constantly carrying out the past behaviours in the present.” ( idem. ，190)
Samuel Hynes once pointed out: One of the function in memory as an indisputable function of the individual brain is a sort of mental function, through which we preserves or restores our past and past events. ( Green 2004，37) Therefore, memory is people inheriting the past in present, a significant method to maintain different cultural heritage and identity. Our everyday life, works, feelings even affections are all hanging onto it, years after years, we are all unceasingly following this rule. While digging deep into people’s daily life, Bergson proposed a “Habitual memory” theory, and explained “the people whom are material entity themselves also act as a carrier, are constantly carrying out the past behaviours in the present.” ( idem. ，190)
