The Aesthetic Prospect Of China's Mass Culture In The Context Of The Globalism

The birth and the development of china's mass culture is the inevitable outcome of the culture globalism. Compared with the traditional culture where sensual life is excessively belittled and suppressed, the release and the revel of life reflected by the originality of the current culture well considers the aesthetic need of most aesthetic subjects and afford aesthetic culture unfailing vitality. Although, because of the erosion of the humanism care by cultural industry, mass culture dispels the spirit of humanismistic criticism the intellectual culture should sticks to, while refusing the ideology of system culture. In view of the sensual degradation of the current mass culture, the aesthetic spirit should be reaffirmed. Traditional culture has long-term and profound source of humanist, it is not only the spirit homestead for the intellectual culture, but also the sphere shared by china's masses and intellectuals for obviating system culture. Because of the reflection on the radical modernity movement in the eighties and the intense complex of national self-identity, the hope of remedy for mass culture is naturally placed on the conversion of traditional aesthetic.When we make an aesthetic prospect of mass culture in the overall background of current culture constructing, it should be admitted that nation identity can contribute to the conversion of the aesthetic spirit of traditional culture and the remedy of degeneration of mass culture. Furthermore, not only should we take intellectual culture as "Archimedes point", have a thorough knowledge of tradition and realism, relate traditional culture and mass culture, help the former take an active part in the development of the later; but also we should merge the three parts of culture, guide and restrict the excessive aesthetic need while developing its vitality to break the outmoded ideas of tradition culture.