Dislocation And Return

The origin of the modern concept of popular culture is from the west. In this article popular culture refers to the culture that is based on social large-scale production, via modern technology and media, to copy and consume in a large scale. With the social development and technology improvement, popular culture has become the most dynamic and influential culture, and also one of the most important ways to research the transition of Chinese culture. As the primary judgment analysis of Chinese popular culture, this article, based on Chinese language environment, through the historic judgment and assessment on the popularity of Frankfurt school of thought, studys the influence of Frankfurt school on Chinese temporary popular culture and its inner logic; and also with special attention on the spatiality and complexity of Chinese popular culture; This article discusses the way to get independence of the affiliation to western theories in global and post-colony language environment, and to build original and up-to-date Chinese popular culture theory structure.This article is comprised of three parts. In the first part, it gives the definition of popular culture and points out the source of popular culture. Meanwhile it analyses the development of Chinese popular culture. With the borderline of the built-up of 90's market economic system, this article divides Chinese popular culture into two periods and emphases the special characteristics of Chinese popular culture in different periods.In the second part, this article expounds Frankfurt school on Chinese popular culture on the aspects of the source of theory, foundation of philosophy, characteristic of theory. In Part Three, this article emphasis on three directions to study the influence logic ofFrankfurt school. First of all, popular culture mainly discusses the most important concept of Frankfurt school-Culture Industry. And this relates with different culture background and period of China and the west. Secondly, this article discusses the dislocation of Frankfurt school of thought in China from the relations of popular culture, elite culture and mainstream culture. Last, Chinese temporary popular culture has taken place changes. In this condition, we should scan afresh the influence of Frankfurt social critical theory.