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Interpretation Of Fei Xiaotong's "Cultural Consciousness"

Posted on:2011-08-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y F ZhuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360305995702Subject:Sociology
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With the depth development of economic globalization, the multi-culture conflict, communication and integration are strengthened. What are required based on Mr Fei Xiaotong's "cultural consciousness" are how to inherit and carry forward the Chinese culture, to learn and absorb advanced "different cultures", to promote cross-cultural dialogue and exchange, to promote China's overall economic and social development, and to build a "harmony but not sameness" better world.According to the author, Mr Fei Xiaotong's "cultural consciousness" are made on longer thinking and comparing. Based on Mr Fei Xiaotong's works and the study on his academic thinking from the domestic relative experts and scholars, on the Times background and the background of the discipline of anthropology, this paper will analyze the advancing of the "cultural consciousness" thinking, the relationship among cultural consciousness, national culture and different cultures, the impact on the national culture from different cultures, and how to establish cultural self-confidence in cultural consciousness and promote the socialist cultural development and prosperity. Under such Times background of economic globalization that the world becomes a small "global village" owing to increasingly close relationship, which has inflected in every other fields like social polity and culture, and finally causes the cultural globalization. However, cultural globalization doesn't mean the homogenization and unity of culture, but the coexistence of multiple cultures, and their various conflicts owing to the changes of interest relationship. Thus, every nation in the world should have a clear recognition of their own culture, which refers to the "cultural consciousness". As to the social transformation background, which corresponds to the economic globalization, the social structure has transformed from traditional agricultural society to industrial society then to informational society, from which causes the substantial change of culture, which is also need cultural consciousness. On the background of anthropology, it comes to the self recognition and reflection of individual or human beings, so the cultural consciousness due to the disciplines of anthropology, and it also is the result of human being's self reflection. The development of national culture requires its people have self-knowledge of their culture, which, in turn, will improve the development and prosperity of national culture. As different cultures have their own characteristic and charm that attract people to concern and comprehend, everyone or every nation must appreciate their own beauty at first, which is "appreciating one's own beauty". Therefore, this is not enough, people should be able to understand and appreciate others' beauty, which is "appreciating others'beauty". Only so, can the boundaries between people, nation and ethnic be broken, achieving "beauty coexistence". And finally, on the attitude of "consciousness", people begin to understanding, review and analysis China's national culture, to strengthen its exchange and integration with intentional cultures, to promote the development and prosperity of the China's national culture, and further more, improving China's economic and social development comprehensively.This paper analyses the background, connotation and meanings of Mr Fei Xiaotong's "cultural consciousness", and it also raises its own view on the point of how to treat China's national culture with the "consciousness" altitude, how to improve the development and prosperity of culture and the comprehensive development of economic society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Fei Xiaotong, Cultural consciousness, Globalization, Social transformation, Different cultures
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