China's Cultural Construction Amid Economic Globalization

Since the 1980s, especially since the end of the Cold War, economic globalization, sweeping the whole world with overwhelming force, has become one of the most eye-catching trends of development and one of the most distinct features of the contemporary world, economic globalization. What impact economic globalization has on China's cultural construction and how to develop our own culture by taking advantage of this process deserve urgent consideration. Solutions to these problems involve not only judgment of the real situation in culture in the present-day world, decision-making with regard to culture, but also other issues such as the relation between culture, politics and economy as well as the relation between national culture and world culture. With the advance of economic globalization and China's accession to WTO, these issues will attract more attention.To begin with, economic globalization is a process of economic development. As the main activities in human society, economic activities exert profound influence on other spheres of activities of man in terms of framework of systems and rules of operation. Being complicated and highly organized, modern economic activities are inseparably closely related to political ones. As a result of the worldwide flow of capital, technology, information and human resources, knowledge ,ideology, culture and values also have gone national boundaries and become international, contributing to confrontations, shock, infiltration and assimilation between cultures. These trends have come to be more striking in the era of the Internet.Development in economy, trade and technology has broken down the barriers between regions, races, religions and cultures, making it impossible for any particular culture to evolve in isolation. The regional and national self-sufficiency and isolation that used to exist have given way to mutual exchange and mutual reliance between races in every aspect. This is the case with material production and cultural production, which has become public property to each race. What Marks predicted more than 100 years ago in the Manifesto of the Communist Party has been turned in realities in our lives.The impact of economic globalization is by no means confined to economy, but rather, dispersed to politics, culture and society. Globalization has continued to extend, expand into culture and is likely to have significant implication for cultural construction in China. Problems facing culture are more complicated than those in the economic sector. Consequently, careful studies of challenges facing China's cultural development in the process of globalization and facilitating the development of advanced cultures have become our top priority. As the most populous nation, China has no choice but to enter the mainstream of culture.To the world, globalization with China's involvement would be incomplete. To the Chinese, China would be disqualified from the intense competition if it stayed away from globalization. Thus, we have to adopt a proper attitude to the inescapable globalization. What counts is to see globalization in perspective by taking into consideration both advantages and disadvantages.Over the past few years, more attention has been focused on economic globalization and there have been myriad relevant publications in China. In contrast, there have not been sufficient studies of cultural construction and development amid globalization and studies of evaluation of economic globalization in terms of cultural construction. On the basis of previous findings by others, this paper is intended to address the following areas: the process and nature of economic globalization, relevant theories of culture, cultural conflicts and assimilation against globalization, solutions to the conflict between cultural sovereignty and hegemony, blind worshiping of foreign cultures and forms of expression, and finally the theoretical framework for China's cultural construction.This thesis has some striking features. The first is lies in the novel perspective.