현대화 과정에서 나타난 저층담론과 지식생산: 다큐멘터리 「鐵西區」를 중심으로

Abstract

Differentiations of the social class and social inequality have been accelerated due to the change of the market economy system since 1990. Thus, there was a fierce dispute in the intelligentsia with the criticism on the polarization in the social class, social inequality and unfair issue. One of the key disputes is that how ‘Low classes’ in China can be considered. Low classes are a weak group in the society who seldom achieved economic, sociological and cultural resources come from the modernization in China and it is one of the key issues how China will make decision for the future and also it becomes the main key word to understand China. This paper focuses on 「Tie xi qu」(Wang-Bing 9hours), a full great epic documentary which clearly shows the prosperity and declining of the low class labors uncovered in the course of the modernization of China. Other studies on the low class issues were limited only to get at ideological discourse, cultural criticism and analysis of the story. In this paper, the subject will be focused in a dualistic way in combination with the theory and reality escaping from the individual approaching way. That is, discourse on the low class and production of intelligence will be discussed through the combination with the discourse and analysis of the story mainly with the discourse and creativity. Thus, it is to understand how the low class people have made their living in the course of the modernization and how the intelligentsia understands it to produce theirs discourses and knowledge. Further, it will discuss how the main issues handled in the ideological or critical circles were reflected in the story. The main contents are to review the historical transformation of Cheolseo-gu and the uncovered low class documentary in the course of the modernization, examine the daily life of the labors uncovered in the story of Tie xi qu(Total 3 parts) and analyze what is the relationship with the historical transformation. Finally, the low class related discourse and the role of the intelligentsia will be discussed.