Research On Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture

Contemporary Chinese popular culture is an integral part of the socialist culture and it is an important foundation of today’s era of humanities. It is produced from the contemporary industrial society and regards the public for consumer objects. It spreads a large amount of information by means of the mass media, mass production. It is also easy to copy and it is designed to enable the general public to get sensual pleasure to follow the laws of the market a new cultural development morphology and cultural phenomenon.Contemporary Chinese popular culture developed with the establishment of the reform and Opening up as well as the development of Chinese characteristics "market economy", In the context of irreversible globalization, Contemporary Chinese popular culture swept off into a compelling cultural phenomenon. Through the process of localization in more than thirty years, Contemporary Chinese popular culture gradually advance from the edge of the culture toward the center of the cultural. Contemporary Chinese cultural system includes three cultural patterns:the elite culture, the socialist mainstream culture and popular culture.On the one hand, contemporary Chinese popular culture is general public, business, entertainment, popular an timeliness. Those are the basic characteristics the same with Western popular culture. Because of the different environment and development space, there is difference from the Western popular culture. For example, The word "public" in the Chinese context is different from the Western context; The mode of operation between China and the West are not the same; In addition, Contemporary Chinese popular culture is also Hierarchical, imbalance, compatible and so on.Contemporary Chinese popular culture is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it is meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people, active amateur cultural life of the general public and achive cultural sharing. It establish the cultural subjectivity status of the public and expand the range of cultural influences; It changed the inherent pattern of culture and accelerated the cultural diversification process:It adapt to the needs of the market economy, and gave birth to a series of mass culture industry, in order to liberated and developed social productive forces and promote a rapid development of the economy. But it can not be avoided, as a new thing. Contemporary Chinese popular culture has some problems to be solved as well as it plays a positive impact on social progress and economic development. It also produce many negative effects on the harmonious economic and social development. Such as:it is likely to cause a new cultural imbalance when it speeds up the pattern of cultural pluralism; It implies a negative factor because of the two sides of the basic features of the popular culture, in the developmentprocess of the vulgar popular culture it must will be enlarged; In the cultural context of globalization, the spread of mass culture process permeated with Western values, consumer attitudes, the operation of the media acts as a Western cultural hegemony. In short, the reasonable value and the negative impact of the contemporary Chinese popular culture led to a variety of different evaluation and discussion in the academic community.Faced with the opportunities and challenges of the attendant, contemporary Chinese popular culture will go where, what we can do is passively acception or actively seeking coping strategies? This prompted us to avoid the disadvantages and actively explore the way to develop contemporary popular culture. Contemporary Chinese popular culture as a part of the socialist culture, must regard the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics’popular culture as the goal of development. We must treat popular culture rationally and regard the socialist core values as guidance, Popular culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics must develop towards modernization, the world and the future at the same time reflect the nature of socialism.Another areas that we need to note is that the construction of the contemporary Chinese popular culture still must go on the way that is consonant, on the domestic, popular culture co-exist in harmony with a variety of other cultural forms, and not deviate from the main theme at the same time to speed up the integration of multiple cultural resources. From the world, in terms of the contemporary Chinese popular culture to actively respond to the challenges posed by the globalization of culture, try our best to strengthen the path of communication and exchange of different national and cultural harmony on the basis of maintaining the national identity...