Expounding The Construction Of Contemporary Era China's Mass Culture

It is generally regarded that Mass culture originated from the west, and later is scattered about then become prosperous around the world. Mass culture in china arose late, but its tendency is very powerful. China's mass culture's prosperity becomes an important and paid attention to culture phenomenon. The evaluation of the mass culture and its developing direction become a hot issue in discussion. Some scholars regard that mass culture means culture in progress and has a positive effect on china's advance. Therefore, it should be accepted and fully supported. While others regard mass culture may have serious negative effect on development of the society. So, it should be denied. This essay stands on the basic facts and general phenomenon of china's mass culture, trying base itself on a level of the time, starting from the long-time and overall situational construction of china's mass culture firstly explain how it come into being and what is its definition. Then by clutching tightly to "mass culture with Chinese characteristic" as the goal, The essay analyzes objectively the positive and negative effects of mass culture, and give suggestions from five aspects about china's mass culture construction on the bases of unity of opposite in accessing mass culture.