SCHOLARLY DIGEST – KULTURANG POPULAR

A. Titulo ng Sanaysay/Babasahin: Post-socialism and Cultural Policy: The depoliticization of

culture in late 1970s and 1980s’ China (Laikwan Pang)

B. Sanggunian: Pang, Laikwan (_______).Post-socialism and Cultural Policy: The depoliticization

of culture in late 1970s and 1980s’ China. Retrieved from
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C. Pangunahing tesis o ideya ng sanaysay/babasahin: The depoliticization of culture has a big

effects to strengthens state’s cultural industry in any means.

Mga Sipi Pahina Sariling pagtataya, pananaw o

kritika
1. The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a most 147 From here, it marked the
vibrant transition brought about by the beginning of the Open Door
decision of the Chinese Communist Party Policy wherein the US affairs
(CCP) to adopt market-embedded allowed to have a trading system
mechanisms and abandon some of its between China that is open to all
socialist ideals. countries equally.
2. In the 1990s, in which market logic quickly 147 The state’s attention to culture
superseded state control, and the mass media has been shifted from political
turned into powerful political and economic propaganda to pacification
figures for financial support and patronage, wherein people were granted
the People’s Republic of China (PRC) cultural freedom.
continued to hold tight to its cultural control
3. Culture was still considered a propaganda 147 In implies on how a depoliticized
tool, but the extreme politicization of culture notion of cultural policy
during the previous decade proved replaced cultural politics as the
detrimental to the stability of the regime. normative state culture relations.
4. The CCP sees culture as the entirely of 148 It says here that the culture is not
human thought, or the manifestations and only by means of arts but also to
the backbone of the superstructure. ethics, human values, education,
and even science and technology.
Additionally, it is also relates to
the society, politics and
economics and concerns the
people’s future and nation’s
destiny.
5. Huang Zhen criticized the state for having
issued too-many and too-rigid restrictions on
cultural enterprises; his new policy gave
cultural enterprises sufficient autonomy for
individual development. The Ministry of
Culture also engage in more systematic
research and planning in order to keep
effective culture management of political
intereference.
6. In 1979, the Ministry of Culture issued an
official document in systematic reform and
improved leadership in the arts and theatre,
representing the first step toward
decentralization by granting arts
organizations the right to determine which
pieces to perform, as well as autonomy in
financial and personnel management.
7. The expansion of Chinese Popular culture in
the 1980s was phenomenal, particularly in
the medium of television.
8. Spiritual civilization corresponds to the
progressive culture of socialism and
manifests education, science, and culture -
representing the advancement of people’s
thinking, politics and ethics.
9. The actual dynamics between cultural
pluralization and spiritual civilization within
China’s political milieu of that time can be
observed in the initial importation of
Japanese cultural products.
10. This depoliticization also helps us
understand many manifestations of China’s
cultural industries, whose vibrant
developments are currently guaranteed by
the products’ ignorance of actual politics.
148 The policy direction
implemented in general intended
the government to have a
technical and research-oriented
goal, avoiding micro-
management and resulted to rapid
pluralization of the culture.
149 This resulted as the state’s first
step away from direct cultural
control and lend to triggered a
strong desired from its people to
get in touch with foreign culture
and to develop their own. By this
means, the culture of the people
has been developing
increasingly.
149 Television is modern mass
culture par excellence, as people
can stay in their domestic spaces
and free to choose their own
entertainment. Indicating that
influence of mass culture can be
done even in your own pace and
choice.
150 This idea of Spiritual Civilization
may tend to serves as one the
ideological pillar of the state that
can strengthen their cultural
practices and beliefs.
152 It explains here that the state
could no longer insulate the
population completely from
Western culture and slowly
invades them.
159 It says the no matter how much
the current government looks to
the other countries’ industry as a
model of cultural enterprise, the
state will never follow the
footstep of another country
because it runs the risk of
transforming the domestic
industry into one evades political
control.