Discussion On Cultural Construction In The Base Areas During The Anti-Japanese War

The cultural in the base areas during the Anti-Japanese War is a significantcomponent of China’ s new democratic culture, it plays an active role in unitingAnti-japanese forces, accelerating base areas construction, improving the quality ofpeople in the base areas. The cultural construction in the base areas during theAnti-Japanese War takes place in two stages symbolized by the RectificationMovement, which eliminates the erroneous tendancy in Chinese Communist Party(CCP), developing the cultural construction since then. With the development of theAnti-Japanese War, the base areas make great achievements and gain valuableexperience in education, press and publications, literature and art, physical education,medical treatment and public health and theory construction which is still instructivenowadays. Current cultural construction must emphasize the subjectivity of themasses and of the cultural.The cultural construction in the base areas during the Anti-Japanese War has thefollowing features: it is guided by the Marxism and combined with the reality inChina; it regards saving the nation from extinction as important as enlightenment; it isthe practical culture serving for the war; it is the public culture taking the masses asmain body; it shows the leadership factor during the cultural construction. Theinspiration to current socialist cultural construction from that in the base areas duringthe Anti-Japanese War mainly includes: we should understand the significance ofcultural construction from tactic level; we must build advanced socialistic cultureregarding the Marxism as guidelines; cultural construction must reveal requirementsof the times, insist the subjectivity of the masses, pay great attention to effects ofintellectual and create new cultural carrier according with socialist core values.Cultural construction is the key to the question of current socialist construction.And the problem appears in current socialist construction that how to synchronize thecultural transformation and the social development transformation. Reorganizing andAnalysing the cultural construction in the base areas during the Anti-Japanese War isnot only instructive to enact specific measures to current socialist cultural construction,but also meaningful to build advanced socialistic culture with Chinese characteristicsand achieve our Pary’s goal that establishing a strong socialistc cultural country.