The Study On Mass Culture In Wuhan City During 1949-1966

As an important component of culture, mass culture is enormous to Chinese material civilization, political civilization and spiritual civilization. For integrating cultural resource and reconstructing new society, the Communist Party of China that gained the ruling status just now in 1949, initially attached a great importance to mass culture, which was introduced to strong leadership of the Party. The article describes the development of mass culture in Wuhan city from 1949 to 1966, and introspects the success and the fault of mass culture at that time in the basis of given archives.Mass culture is a complex system which comprises mass cultural activities, institution and facility as well as adaptive administration. The development of mass culture in Wuhan city during 1949-1966, is mostly embodied at these aspects. On network construction of mass culture, with the development of economy, under the promoting of social movement, the institution of mass culture in Wuhan city gradually perfected. And the crowd possessed their own cultural field. At the same time, the management of mass culture in Wuhan city was built, and was belong to unified leadership of the Party. On the activities of mass culture, the flourishing situation was generally presented from content to form in Wuhan city. The activities of mass culture went out of minor and vulgar culture, and initiated great and elegant culture; but many activities of mass culture coordinated central movement and was extremely inclined to social effect, especially the aptitude of emphasis on political and ideological effect was very evident. On the administration of mass culture, for strengthening the Party leadership to mass culture and completely integrating social culture, all the level Party committee and cultural department frequently regarded politics as single standard of value, so that the development of mass culture was lost in rigid doctrine in that seventeen years of political atmosphere more and more intense.In the society that had a great of political elements from 1949 to 1966, mass culture in Wuhan city was affected by politics. The article makes deep introspection to special inter-relation between politics and mass culture in Wuhan city: mass culture must exist in certain political environment, but it is never the accessory of the politics. So only if we dialectically conduct their relationship and conform to the historical trend of the times, mass culture gives play to active action in socialist modernization.