| China's popular culture comes into being and becomes popular in China's contemporary commercial society. It is a kind of pattern culture form with the character of entertainment and consumer, whose main object is the consumers in metropolis, By the means of mass propagation media, it proceeds in all cases from profit . In 1990's, with the background that China is vigorously advancing the development of commodity economy, the popular culture can spring up and develop by leaps and bounds.This thesis combines the trend of thought in postmodernism, by analyzing China's popular culture phenomena theoretically, reveals its postmodernism representation presented under the states of economy, science and technology, life. It also makes a brief exposition on the present situation and dilemma of the current research on China's popular culture, leading a way to promoting its humane level and recognizing its aesthetic value.This thesis is divided into three parts. Emphasis is put on the first part, in which the exposition on the postmodernism representation of China's popular culture is divided into three aspects: Firstly, the popular culture is a kind of economy-type consumer culture with the character of commodity and deconstruction. It proceeds from profit, presenting the postmodernism representation of anti-authority and anti-subjectivity. Secondly, the popular culture is a kind of science and technology-type pattern culture with the character of duplication and hegemony. By the means of mass media, it presents the postmodernism representation of non-center and pluralistic co-existence. Thirdly, the popular culture is a kind of life-type and perceptual culture with entertainment and daily character, whose main object is the consumers in metropolis, presenting the postmodernism representation of non-depth and plane nature, In this thesis, a lot of popular culture phenomena such as fashionable magazines, TV, internet, karaoke, advertisement and fashionable dress, etc. are specially analyzed, by this way, the postmodernism representation of China's popular culture can be further revealed, In the second part, it comes to theanxiety-interpretation of the popular culture in China. At first, researchers' different attitudes are listed briefly, then it comes that several dilemmas caused by the popular culture's pluralism and contradiction are badly in need of solutions. In the last part, a way is pointed out, leading China's popular culture to promoting its humane level and aesthetic value.In brief, this thesis tries to make people clear the present situation and developing prospect of the popular culture in China by revealing the post-modernism representation of China's popular culture, so that people can take advantage of its positive sides to change and remove its negative sides, in order to advance the socialist cultural construction in our country. |
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