Five Misunderstandings of A Historic City and A Forgotten Perspective of Cultural Reorientation----- A Case Study of Wuhan City

Abstract. Comparing with other Chinese cities, Wuhan may be the most typical Metropolis of China’s Cultural Reorientation. However, this city is used to being recognized with f ive misunderstandings, such as the confusing definition of the type of Historic-City, under-evaluation to its former five-foreign-concessions as well as early industrial heritage, but over-evaluation to the influence of its first republic revolution, and the location of its intangible heritage. These issues lead to one problem: a forgotten clue of cultural transformation, which had been working as a pusher of this city since 1861. According to the research of the author, the paper tired to open out the facts that how the new city’s spirit born from this change, an