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An Ethnography from Chen Dong Village, Nanning

Authors
Yuqi Bai1, *
1PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology, Philippine Women’s University, Manila, 1004, Philippines
*Corresponding author. Email: 596062931@qq.com
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Yuqi Bai
Available Online 31 December 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-511-9_63How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Pinghua Shigong Opera; Urbanization; Urban Space
Abstract

Focusing on Chen Dong Village (Nanning, Guangxi), this study uses participant observation and interviews to show how Pinghua Shigong Opera is reshaped—spatially and functionally—under urbanization. Building on Lefebvre’s “production of space,” ritual sites centered on clan and deity give way to display arenas structured by regulation, market taste, and media visibility; the performance orientation shifts from gods, to audiences, to cameras. Using the Huapo Festival as a case, we track the reordering of key segments across temple forecourts and homes and note the persistence of fertility-biased gender logics within new institutional–media settings. Urban space thus emerges as spatial reproduction driven by institutions, capital, and practice—compressing time, auditing content, and programmatizing rhythm—while spectators become consumers and circulation nodes. A fine-grained account of space–body–institution coupling explains negotiated survival via programmatic collage, rhythmic recalibration, and symbolic reconfiguration.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2025)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
31 December 2025
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978-2-38476-511-9
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2352-5398
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10.2991/978-2-38476-511-9_63How to use a DOI?
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© 2025 The Author(s)
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