On The Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture

"Popular Culture" is not a culture that exists since ancient times, and it's the product of the contemporary society, t turns up following the industrialization and the growing of the city. The popular culture is a kind of modern culture phenomenon which makes majority of the citizen come into being the similar way of existence and the same require so as to form into a whole that shares the similar interest, habit, custom, meaning, belief and value. It was born in the modern city and it spreads itself through the culture product produced by the culture industry with the aid of modern popular medias, such as radios, televisions, newspaper, magazines and Internets, at the places like disco-ballrooms, bars, shopping plazas, bathing plazas, with the style as jeans, longhair, rock-roll. It's a culture phenomenon that keeps closely touch with commerce activities like buying and selling or consume. It is spared by the popular in the modern city and is different from folk culture with long history.The meanings of both "the popular" and "the mass" are alike, but now when we refer to "the popular culture", "the popular", not "the mass", are often used. As we known, "the popular" or "the mass" is not "people", not "crowd", not "citizen" and it's individual or community emerges and exists in the modern city, with some characteristic and similarity each other, which acts some role representing some kind of position or value. Up to now the scale of the mature popular is still not very large in our whole society because of the low degree of the growing of our cities, the building market economy, he forming consume-society, while a latent "the future popular" is growing and is becoming stronger and stronger in our countryside.The popular culture has become the main stream culture in the wholeof world, but it raze abruptly only before recent several years in our country. A flourishing of short duration of popular culture appeared in Shanghai at 30-40 age of the last century, yet which couldn't keep a long time on account of some reasons as were all known. After reforming our country opens to the world and makes big strides forward modernization gradually. With the varieties of our society from agriculture to industry, from countryside to city, from plan to market, and unify of the world, the popular culture has taken root and blossomed little by little in our city.Aside from the factors of the transform of our society and emergence of our popular in the city, the appearance of the popular culture of our contemporary country is relation to the following factors: such as the expanding of "personal territory", the rapid development of modern popular medias, the forming of culture industry, loose and comfortable culture policies of our government and unify of the whole world.The characters of our popular culture, that are different from the those of the western one because of the front factors, lies in: it's a culture combing politics with economy; it has broken the original culture structure and has facilitated the dialogue between the authority culture, folk culture and intellectual culture; it is a kind of culture with double value of both amusement and aesthetic breaking the boundary between elegance and common; it takes foreign culture with the democracy, scientific and studious attitude and brings forth new ideas gradually.The contemporary popular culture of our country as an advanced and free culture is bound to become main current culture in our whole society, healthy culture chiming with the essence of human beings and democracy culture spared by majority with the breakout of "the Logic Center" and the coming offspring contemporary times.