Studies On Mao Tse-tung's Culture Viewpoints

Mao Tse-tung's culture viewpoints refer to his macro-understanding of and macro-attitudes towards culture. This paper discusses Mao Tse-tung's culture viewpoints in the four aspects: the development course of Mao Tse-tung's culture viewpoints, the relation between culture and politics and economy, national, scientific and popular culture and the guiding value of Mao Tse-tung's culture viewpoints to the advanced culture.The establishment of Mao Tse-tung's culture viewpoint is deeply influenced by the traditional culture and is also greatly inspired by Marxism theories. Under the historical background of the convergence of the Western and the Oriental cultures and on the basis of the social practice of Chinese Revolution, Mao Tse-tung's culture viewpoints budded when Mao Tse-tung studied in Hunan Number One Normal College, developed in revolution practice of saving the country and people and finally matured in systematic research in Yan'an city.The contents of Mao Tse-tung's culture viewpoints are complicated and profound."Certain culture is the reflection of certain politics and economy and culture also has an influence on politics and economy."This is the core and soul of Mao Tse-tung's culture viewpoints and also the most important viewpoint. To put them in plain language, they can be expressed as follows: culture reflects politics and economy; the character of politics and economy determines the character of culture; culture changes and develops together with politics and economy; culture serves politics and economy and pushes political reform and economic reform forward.Mao Tse-tung's culture viewpoints clarify the interactive relationship between culture and politics and economy, thus determining the characteristics of the new culture of China. The characteristics of new culture are: national, scientific and popular. This is the creative conception which is also the historical conclusion on the Chinese and Western debate on the culture problem in early modern and modern times of China. The words"national","scientific"and"popular"are not common attributes but determine the essence of the new culture.Mao Tse-tung shows his advancement through solving the culture problem. He spares no efforts to contribute to the development and innovation of Chinese new culture. His culture viewpoints are of guiding significance to the establishment of advanced culture. Specifically speaking, his culture viewpoints point out the Marxism direction for the new culture, establish the methodology principle of"making the past serve the present and making foreign things serve China; getting rid of the stale and bringing forth the fresh"and establish the culture principle of"encouraging people to express different academic viewpoints and to debate on different viewpoints"...