Key Questions on Reforming China’s Cultural Governance Capability in the Internet Era*

Abstract

In the past ten years, with the rise and popularity of Internet technology, Chinese society has experienced a silent “cultural uprising,” which has formed a part of the lives and habits of contemporary ordinary Chinese at different levels, and has challenged the old pattern of cultural power and governance. How to identify this phenomenon, and carry out corresponding reforms, as an important aspect of national governance, is an urgent research topic. Based on the observation and analysis of the phenomenon of Chinese Internet culture in recent years, we can explore and summarize several key issues of China’s current cultural governance reform, and try to explain theoretically the influence of cultural prosperity on political power by retrospecting several governance experiences and lessons in history. In the era of the new Internet technology, how to truly enhance the nation’s basic ability to avoid the situation of dying once and letting go. The complexity of contemporary cultural governance comes from the new technological conditions, while the difficult problem runs through the historical understanding of the entire new cultural governance capacity.

Keywords

the Internet era / “cultural uprising / ” cultural governance / ideology

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Higher Education Press and Brill