To Study The Ethnic Traditional Culture Modernization In Xinjiang

Culture has become the identity symbol laying down the foundation of a nation’s survival and development, the shaping force deeply rooted in a nation’s life, and the creativity and cohesion supporting a nation’independence, rising up, and progress.Today, with the importance of soft power worldwide acknowledged, culture is one growing determinant of a nation’s comprehensive power. In the modernization of Xinjiang, modern culture plays the important functions of leading, cohering, identifying, and integrating. Fit for the natural farming and animal husbandry economy, the traditional culture of Xinjiang minority groups has failed to catch up with Xinjiang’s modernization, therefore it needs modern transformation towards socialist core values to promote Xinjiang’s leap-forward development and lasting stability which are of both great realistic and historical significance.From the cultural communication perspective, this dissertation mainly studies the modernization of Xinjiang minority groups’traditional culture. The inevitability and possibility of the modern transformation of Xinjiang minority groups’culture, setting in the globalization background, are analyzed in both vertical and horizontal lines. The methods and routes of building Xingjiang modern culture are explored as well.Culture transformation is the result of both vertical and horizontal moves. Vertical moves enable time changes in the culture, which is in accordance with social history; while horizontal moves impose forces on the inside of the society to promote society’s horizontal moves, which in return would cause culture transformation.According to the studies on horizontal moves principles of exotic cultures, the modernization of Xinjing minority groups’traditional culture should use the power of exotic cultures to push forward its own vertical development. From the outside and horizontal perspective, the modern cultures’global communication has brought two changes:one is the enhancement of culture homogeneity, the other is the enhancement of ethnical consciousness among the diversity of global cultures. Based on the above theories, this dissertation puts forward the methods for the modernization of Xinjiang minority groups’culture:borrow, integrate, open up, inherit, and innovate.By exploring the culture vertical move principles, Xinjiang minority groups’ traditional culture is proved to have the internal quality of time changes. Therefore it provides historical premise and resources for the transformation of Xinjiang minority groups’traditional culture.The fundamental dynamic changes of Xinjiang social culture comes from the productive forces and production relations, economic base and superstructure of social internal contradictions. The development and changes of Xinjiang modern productivity conflicting with the old superstructure, and traditional culture conflicting with modern culture block the development of new economic form while Xinjiang traditional social culture facing the heavy pressure of transformation and modernization.The transformation and modernization of Xinjiang society culture is ultimately realized by modernized people. Religion, as an important psychological factor, plays a crucial role in the native ethnic culture because the majority of Xinjiang people are religious. The study on religion’s adjustment to modernization shows well the effect made by traditional culture’s internal motives on people. Modernized people unleashes inner motives for spontaneous introspection, which is the core of culture transformation.At the end, the dissertation studies the routes for the modernization of Xinjiang minority traditional culture from different angles:From the angle of political culture, the route is political culture communication-----civic culture construction; From the angle of mass culture, the route is culture industry communication and mass media development.Culture competition means a lot to current competition among different countries, ethnic groups and regions. Cling-to-the past is not the correct way to cherish the traditional culture, throw-away-the past or abuse traditions mean desecrating and disrespect. Combined theory analysis with social practice investigation, the dissertation makes effort to outline the necessary responses and moves that Xinjiang minority groups’traditional culture should take while confronting the development of modern economy, discuss the economical, social, and political significances made by the modernization of Xinjiang minority groups’traditional culture, and the different methods and routes for the modernization of Xinjiang minority groups’traditional culture.