China Youth Popular Culture

After thirty years of development, the current youth popular culture is welcoming a newdevelopment opportunity, and to a large extent, it affects contemporary youth lifestyle and culturalvalues. Although youth popular culture can broaden young people’s horizons, enrich theirknowledge, it also has some negative impact on young people. Therefore, this paper analyzes thecurrent youth popular culture in order to explore the current problems and put forwardcorresponding countermeasures and suggestions. I wish this paper can contribute to an accurateunderstanding of youth pop culture and guide young people to a rational consumption of popculture products or service.There are four chapters altogether. Chapter Ⅰ is about young popular culture connotation. I listthe elements and carriers of the current youth popular culture.Chapter Ⅱ discusses the current status and characteristics of youth popular culture. First Iintroduce the youth pop culture is forming operation mechanism. Also, it has a positive impact onenrich the life of adolescents and promote social economic development. Second, I sum up the fourcharacteristics of the current youth pop culture-entertainment, experiential, participatory andfashion. And then analyzes the close relationship between the youth popular culture and youngpeople.In Chapter Ⅲ,I analyze the current problem and causes of the current youth popular culture.The problems are: lacking of boutique; decoupling with the traditional culture; improperconsumption can harm the adolescents. Then I discuss the causes of these problems: first, thegrowth environment of young people changes a lot; second the youth pop culture are greatlyaffected by foreign culture; the third is the inadequate attention of the youth pop culturalconstruction given by the government, which lead to the imperfect management system of theproduction, dissemination and consumption of the youth pop culture.Chapter Ⅳ is about thecountermeasures and suggestion of the future development of youthpop culture. First and foremost is to increase emphasis on youth pop culture, and use the advancedsocialist culture and the fine traditional Chinese culture to lead youth popular culture, improve themanagement system of youth popular culture. And use the youth pop culture to improve theinternational competitiveness of cultural industries.