拆掉大连：中国的“俄罗斯”城正在抹去自己的遗产 [英国媒体]

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Founded by the Russians Dalian boasts a wealth of architectural history. But now its treasured buildings are marked for demolition – and the government is being sued. One student went to capture the area before it disappears

由俄罗斯人创造的，大连拥有深厚的建筑史。但是现在它珍贵的建筑被标记为要拆除-而当地政府正在被起诉。一个学生在这些建筑消失之前拍下了他们的照片。

Sitting on the Liaodong Peninsula in north-east China the second-tier city of Dalian has a complex history. Transformed in 1898 from a small fishing village into a major port city under Russian rule Dalian passed into Japanese hands in the 1930s before falling under Soviet control after the second world war. In 1950 the USSR handed the city over to the Chinese government.

位于辽东半岛，中国东北的二线城市大连有着复杂的历史。从1898年的小渔村转变成了主要的港口城市，俄罗斯对其的统治于上个世纪30年代转到了日本人的手中，直到二战结束后又落入苏联的掌控。1950年苏联将这座城市交给了中国政府。

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Dalian’s cityscape reflects this history with Japanese and Russian architecture surrounded by gleaming new commercial skyscrapers. One of the most famous examples is Russian Street originally called Engineer Street.

大连的城市风景反映着其历史，日本和俄国的建筑被新建成熠熠生辉的商业摩天大楼所包围。其中最有名的一个例子就是俄罗斯街，曾被称为工程师街。

The oldest street in Dalian it boasts buildings built by the Russians in the early 20th century. By the mid-1990s many had fallen into disrepair and city mayor at the time Bo Xilai decided to carefully renovate the remaining structures adding new ones built in a similar style. He also renamed it Russian Street.

大连最古老的街上拥有俄国人在二十世纪初修建的建筑物。到了上个世纪九十年代中期许多变得年久失修而当时的市长薄熙来决定细致地修缮剩余的建筑物并加入相近风格的新建筑。他也将这条街命名为俄罗斯街。


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MrWangincanada
I wouldn't call every Russian style building a "heritage" . For one they are only a hundred years old. And not every building is magnificent and architecturally significant. Judging from the pictures the buildings to be demolished are rather ordinary and not all that efficient to use in a crowded city. In Dalian's city center there are many well preserved Russian architectures.

我不会管每一个俄国风格的建筑为‘遗产’。一个原因就是它们只有一百年而已。而且不是每一个建筑物都是壮丽的和在建筑上有重要性。通过照片来判断这些将被拆除的建筑都相当普通而且在一个拥挤的城市里使用起来并不那么有效率。在大连市中心有很多保存完好的俄罗斯建筑

ID5684753
Lets face it. You can't make a tower block architecturally interesting. It's a tower and it's block shaped

面对现实吧。你不能让摩天大楼变得有建筑特色。它就是高楼而且是块状。

Aman Avtar S Sandhu
It's such a pity we are seeing the destruction of historical buildings which with a little bit of imagination could be streets with international restaurants clubs and entertainment outlets and an entertainment sector of the city. Singapore did very well converting their old water front colonial buildings into an entertainment hub and preserving these old buildings for generations to appreciate.

太遗憾了我们见证了对历史建筑的毁坏，这些建筑配合一点想象力可以成为有国际餐厅，俱乐部和娱乐场所的街道并且成为城市的娱乐区域。新加坡就很好的把他们旧的滨水地区的殖民时期建筑改造成娱乐中心而且这些老建筑可以留给后代欣赏。

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eXposeJose
Dalian is a bit of a conundrum. The Russian enclave is located bang in the middle of the business district but is mainly home to tourist rip off shops and unfortunately there has been no concerted effort to bring the buildings up to standard. Sadly when you get to the far end of the pedestrian area you find yourself in a ghost town. I doubt very much that there is any chance of protecting the actual buildings but the likelihood is that they will be developed into something much more glitzy in much the same style. Dalian is the top North East China tourist destination but recent developments such as a 9km long mega bridge that now completely blocks in what was originally the top seaside spot in the city leaves you wondering where they will go next. Last year it was even muted to me that they were planning a 200km bridge from Dalian to Yantai on the Shandong peninsular. Like many Chinese cities Dalian is now unrecognizable from what it must have looked like 20 years ago the most recent casualty having been the Japanese district. Dalian was actually the first place the Japanese set foot in China prior to their wholesale occupation and apparently there were historical reasons for the demolition the layout of the district from the air reading 大日本 or Japan is Great! Welcome to the People's Republic everybody.

大连是一个难题。俄国的旧时期飞地位于商业区中心但是其主要是对游客敲竹杠的商店的聚集地而且很不幸的是没有做出努力让建筑达到标准。悲哀的是当你走到步行区尽头，你会发现你在一个废弃的镇里。我非常怀疑这有一丝机会保护建筑本身，而更可能的是他们将其发展成一些有相同风格更加耀眼的建筑。大连是中国东北最佳的旅游目的地但是目前的发展例如九公里大桥被完全规划进当初城市最佳的海边景点， 这让你遐想他们下一步会怎么做。去年甚至让我无语的是他们规划一条200公里的桥从大连到烟台-位于山东半岛。像许多中国城市一样大连现在对比20年前的样貌已经无法辨认了。最近的受害者则是日本区。大连实际上是日本人第一个涉足中国的地方早于他们的大规模占领，而拆除日本区是有历史原因的，因为从空中看这个区的布局像“大日本”！欢迎来到人民共和国。

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Patrick Siu
No surprise. The Chinese have been in a fetish of knocking down everything belonging to previous eras for over 2 millennia. They believe that previous era = backwards or in some cases shame.

不足为奇。2000多年来中国人都热衷于拆除上一个时期的东西。他们认为上个时期=落后或者某些情况下等同于耻辱。

TomFullery
No serious city is complete without its own Trump Tower. If a few historic buildings have to be destroyed for one of these magnificent edifices then it is certainly a price worth paying.

一个庄重的城市的建立不能没有它自己的特朗普大厦。如果为了这么一栋宏伟的大建筑物而需要摧毁一些历史建筑，那么这是完全值得付出的代价。

MisterCat
DC's china town shrank substantially in the last 20 years. Now there's a sports arena that's used for everything from Hockey games to Nickelback concerts.

华盛顿特区的中国城在过去20年里大幅度萎缩。现在那里有一座体育馆被用来做所有事，从曲棍球到‘五分钱合唱团’的演唱会。

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pimppalace
Chinese like visiting the UK and Europe cos the architectural heritage remains in many large and small cities and towns....the "new" is seen as inevitably better than "the old"...a hangover of the cultural revolution perhaps and Mao's destruction of the past....also many old buildings are from the hated colonial period hence tainted for that reason another ideological reason to get rid of them....pity that all the replacements are mostly nightmarish....as the average life of a building in China is about 40 years or something many of the current crop will be torn down in the next wave of economic mayhem and the addition to construction and demolition as major movers of an economy needing to be endlessly pumped to the required annual growth rate..

中国人喜欢到英国和欧洲游览因为在许多大小城镇里都有保存建筑遗迹。。。。。。‘新的’难免被视为比‘旧的’更好。。。。。。也许是文革和毛对过去的毁坏所留下的后遗症。。。。。。而且许多老建筑是被厌恶的殖民时期的产物，所以出于这样的意识形态而要摧毁这些旧建筑。。。。。。遗憾的是所有的替代物大多是像噩梦似的。。。。。。在中国，建筑寿命平均大约是40年左右，所以在下一个经济大破坏浪潮中，目前的这些建筑中很多都将被摧毁，而且建设和拆毁是一个经济体的主要推动力，所以为了实现年度经济增长率，得不断的建设和拆毁。

georgef
"transform the area into a high-end commercial and business district." If that's the plan renovate the buildings into fancy coffee shops and boutiques. Maybe the coffee shop would serve tea from a samovar and have blond caucasian baristas.

“改造该地区使其成为高端商业区”如果这就是计划，那么应该将这些建筑改造为时髦的咖啡店和精品店。也许这样的咖啡店会用俄国茶壶提供茶并且使用金发的白人咖啡师。 ”。

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EleanorOfAquitaine
almost all of cities from York north would be dreadful slums There was often nothing wrong with the housing stock in slum areas besides the fact they'd been turned into tenements and neglected. Demolition was often used as it was cheaper than restoration and because prewar architecture was often undervalued especially when compared to the gleaming new schemes meant to replace them. The trouble is we've ended up with situations like swathes of Georgian Newcastle torn down for shopping centres and motorways rather than the plazas and cultural buildings promised.

几乎所有北约克郡的城市都会变成贫民窟。除了实际上它们都变成了出租房和被忽视以外，通常贫民窟地区的房子并没有什么问题。由于翻修的代价更高，所以经常被拆除，而且因为战前的建筑的价值经常被低估，特别是相比较那些闪闪放光的用来取代它们的新规划房屋。问题是像乔治亚和纽卡斯尔这些地方的大片区域被拆掉建购物中心和机动车道而不是像承诺的那样用于露天广场和文化建筑的建设。

Celtiberico
But the argument put forward by many is that Russia was entered into WW1 as a result of having turned towards the Balkans by way of seeking an alternative outlet for imperial expansion after having been blocked by Japan in the Far East. Had Russia ignored Serbia because of being preoccupied with Manchurian conquests it would hardly have ended up being dragged into a major conflict by the Black Hand Gang and thus the Bolsheviks wouldn't necessarily have come into power at all.

但是很多人认为俄罗斯加入一战是因为远东被日本人阻断之后俄罗斯不得不通过巴尔干半岛来寻找帝国扩张的出路。如果俄罗斯一心专注于征服满洲而忽视塞尔维亚，那么它被“黑手会”拖进重大冲突的几率就会很小，那么布尔什维克能不能上台就不一定了。

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KeithTaylor
I spent a happy month visiting friends in Dalian about six years ago but looking back now I can barely remember a single street. All I remember is that the city - or at least the parts of it I saw - was utterly charmless. In my memory the entire city was a dull CBD filled with nothing but anonymous office blocks and a few shiny malls. Give me the grimy humid hutongs of Beijing any day.

六年前我去大连拜访朋友在那里度过了愉快的一个月，但是现在回想起来我几乎想不起任何一条街。所有我记得的就是那座城市-至少是我看到的那部分-是完全没有魅力的。在我的记忆里整座城市是一个充满了不知名的办公大楼和些许闪亮的购物中心的无趣的中央商业区。 我宁愿去肮脏潮湿的北京胡同。

Thunderpants
If they bulldozed the crap out of every hill and valley on that huge chunk of land that is now Shenzhen I doubt they will fret too much about knocking down some dusty old buildings.

如果他们能彻底推平现在深圳那一大片土地上曾经有的每一座山和山谷，我不信他们会对拆除一些布满灰尘的老建筑有太多焦虑。