《社科汉语研究》

摘要：本文以“海岸商品边疆”为分析框架，探讨海南在当代中国发展进程中如何通过多元社会实践被重新尺度化。文章指出，海南由历史上的“偏远之地”转化为具有战略与象征价值的发展前沿，并非国家单向规划的结果，而是省、市级政府、资本与社会行动者之间竞争性互动的产物。通过对旅游消费、少数民族文化遗产展演与海花岛开发案例，本文揭示尺度如何在“ 后他者化”逻辑下与实践中生成：一方面，游客以娱乐与便利为导向，对“民族风情”进行去魅化消费；另一方面，少数民族文化在国家与全球市场的展演中“被展示却难以发声”的处境；与此同时，地方增长主义与中央规制的张力，不断重塑这一“边疆”空间。本文将边疆理解为一种持续生成的社会尺度，挑战“中心—边缘”的静态叙事，并为理解中国式城镇化与边疆治理提供了新的分析视角。

关键词：海岸商品边疆；海南；中国式城镇化；尺度建构；社会实践

Abstract: Using the “Coastal Commodity Frontier” as its analytical framework, this paper examines how Hainan has been rescaled through multiple social practices in the course of contemporary China’s development. It argues that Hainan’s transformation from a historically “remote land” into a development frontier of strategic and symbolic value is not the result of one-directional state planning. Rather, it is the product of competitive interactions among provincial and municipal governments, capital and social actors. Drawing on the cases of tourist consumption, the staging of ethnic minority cultural heritage and the Haihuadao (Ocean Flower Island) development, the paper shows how scale is generated in practice under a “post-alteric” logic. On the one hand, tourists oriented towards entertainment and convenience consume “ethnic customs” in a disenchanted way. On the other hand, ethnic minority cultures staged for the state and global markets find themselves “displayed yet barely able to speak”. Meanwhile, the tension between local growth-oriented ambitions and central regulation continually reshapes this “frontier” space. By understanding the frontier as a continuously produced social scale, the paper challenges static “centre–periphery” narratives and offers a new analytical perspective on Chinese-style urbanisation and frontier governance.

Keywords: Coastal Commodity Frontier; Hainan; Chinese-style Urbanisation; Scale-Making; Social Practice.