Research On The Cultural Self-confidence Of Socialism With Chinese Characteristics

The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation consists in its economic as well as cultural revival.Mentioned by General secretary Xi Jinping many times under the Chinese rejuvenation theme,the important thought of cultural self-confidence has been further enriched at the 95th anniversary congress of the party founding to point out its role of being the more basic,extensive and profound confidence.The cultural self-confidence represents the historical necessity of the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics and internal demand to fulfill the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.In the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,it was highly emphasized that without a high level of cultural confidence and the prosperity of culture,there would be no rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.In the cultural sense,the cultural self-confidence is the firm belief endowed to the contemporary Chinese and holds a self-confident China and a self-confident Chinese nation from a higher overall sense;in the political sense,its essence lies in the self-confidence of Chinese socialism path and system as well as the initiative of taking the Chinese path to develop Chinese society since modern times and it contains the profound resistance to the Western Centralism.The research probes into the contemporary cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics and has done some elementary theoretical work around its basic theory explanation,historical development logic,main contents,existing problems and cultivation approaches.The thesis consists of five parts as follows:The first part reveals the theoretical connotation of the cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics,simply what it is from the multidimensional angle of its nature?structure and function.The cultural self-confidence is primarily an ideological state and concerns the subject's full approval and firm belief of its own culture.The cultural self-confidence covers the excellent Chinese traditional culture,the Chinese revolutionary culture and the contemporary socialism culture with Chinese characteristics.The remarkable achievements of China's economy,increasingly maturing social system,extensive and profound Chinese culture,and ever-growing international influence constitute the realistic foundation and conditional support for Chinese cultural self-confidence which are quite essential for any culture.Essentially speaking,based on the "Three confidence" of Chinese socialism path,system and theory,the cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the root and practical form of culture in contemporary China.Even though there are different understandings towards the cultural confidence,the cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics is certainly the essence for cultural confidence from the spirits of 18th National Congress and the basic strategies of 19thNational Congress particularly which strengthens the cultural confidence and promotes the cultural prosperity.The cultural self-confidence is a whole on the theoretical,psychological and social value level,among which the last level takes a leading rank.From the dimension of subject and object relationship,who is confident,what to believe and how to realize the link between the subject and object of cultural self-confidence are the structural relations to analyze.The cultural confidence has great strategic significance which involves the destiny of a nation.These analyses on the basic issues form the theoretical basis for this paper.The second part organizes the historical logic of the development of the cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics and carries on the metaphysical thinking towards the cultural self-confidence appeals of contemporary Chinese nation through the integration of the destiny of the nation and its culture.By giving a broad sketch of the evolutionary process of Chinese nation towards its own cultural from cultural confidence to cultural inferiority then to contemporary cultural self-confidence,this part reveals the contemporary cultural self-confidence with the spirit of the times and more innovative in contents and form,which doesn't simply approve and go back to the traditional Chinese culture but make great strides to emphasize the cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics including the historical cultural advantages after experiencing the negation of negation.The socialist culture with Chinese characteristics makes up a vital stage in the development of Chinese culture and features as the advanced culture based on the excellent traditional Chinese culture and guided by Marxism with distinguishable contemporary Chinese traits.The third part brings to light the content points of the cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics by considering and integrating the cultural resources and advantages.Cast in the revolutionary culture which highlights the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the advanced socialism culture,the socialism culture with Chinese characteristics originates from the excellent traditional Chinese culture that plays as its treasure house and historical foundation with rich contents and vitality from ancient times.It has theoretical confidence and advanced ideological connotation due to the guidance of Marxism and the supports from the great revolutionary spirit because it is intimately tied up with the Chinese revolutionary culture.Meanwhile rooted in the practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics,the great achievements of the Chinese socialism grant the culture the basic contents and realistic energy.Apparently representing development direction of the advanced culture,the socialism culture with Chinese characteristics adapts to the economic and social development in contemporary China and plays as the core of contemporary Chinese cultural self-confidence with historical advantages,scientific foundation,advanced ideological connotation and great spirit.The fourth part deals with the problems to solve during the realization of the socialism cultural self-confidence with Chinese characteristics.Logically speaking,we have every reason to be confident of our existing culture,but in fact we are confronted with many challenges to realize the socialism cultural self-confidence with Chinese characteristics such as the urgent new problem of how to deepen the cultural self-confidence by practice to truly help the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.For one thing,a greater cultural voice in the international society for contemporary China is urgently needed compared with the universally well-known achievements in economic and social developments.And in the aspect of soft power,the objective lack of confidence for Chinese includes the cognitive deficit for excellent traditional Chinese culture,the blind worship to western culture and less influence and appeal of the socialism ideology with Chinese characteristics.The lack of discourse power becomes a pressing task for the socialism cultural self-confidence with Chinese characteristics to deal with.And the main causes include the weak cultural self-awareness of the contemporary Chinese,the impact and penetration of powerful western culture,further improvement for the guiding force of Chinese dominating culture and the constrains of conflicts from the socialism practice.Finally the last part explores the path to carry out the cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the five-sphere integrated plan including economy,politics,society,culture and Eco-civilization.To fulfill the cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics is not only an ideological theory but a practice to reinforce the cultural construction by practical wisdom.The socialism culture with Chinese characteristics is undoubtedly promising and energetic and has every reason for the Chinese to be hopeful towards its future.We need to enhance and foster it from the following aspects:from the dimension of cultural subjects,the self-confidence awareness should be improved;from the dimension of cultural comparison,the advantages of our native culture need to be stressed to make the people confident about their culture's value and vitality and the problem of believing in others also needs to be emphasized and realized in the intercultural dialogues;from the dimension of creativity,only the ceaseless innovations on the basis of inheritance can provide cultural self-confidence with powerful guarantee to reach self-support;from the concrete approaches' to achieve it,it is helpful to construct Chinese discourse system and transmit the Chines values when our culture stands in an inferior position so that the Chinese influence can be enhanced by the implement of "go-global" strategy.The cultural self-confidence of socialism with Chinese characteristics is not only a spiritual demand but needs more attention to construction.