A national meeting was held in China on October 7-8, which formally advanced the concept of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture for the first time. In an instruction sent to the meeting, President Xi Jinping, who is also the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, called for breaking new ground … Continue reading Xi Jinping stresses the importance of culture in building a modern socialist society
I read somewhere that often when the Chinese talk about culture they are thinking about it in a more Confucian perspective and so often don’t quite mean what we do when we say culture
Thanks for the link. It doesn’t seem like the author makes any concrete suggestions for implementing anything. Curious to see how it would translate to actual legislation. But in my admittedly amateur opinion, I think stuff like Liu Cixin’s works are a great avenue for inspiring cultural self-confidence and reinforcing socialist and Chinese values - it’s interesting to people who aren’t necessarily politically inclined and innocuous enough to make it on international platforms like Netflix, while still hinting at socialist values such as collectivism and international cooperation and making allusions to Chinese traditional culture.
I would guess he means something along these lines
I read somewhere that often when the Chinese talk about culture they are thinking about it in a more Confucian perspective and so often don’t quite mean what we do when we say culture
Thanks for the link. It doesn’t seem like the author makes any concrete suggestions for implementing anything. Curious to see how it would translate to actual legislation. But in my admittedly amateur opinion, I think stuff like Liu Cixin’s works are a great avenue for inspiring cultural self-confidence and reinforcing socialist and Chinese values - it’s interesting to people who aren’t necessarily politically inclined and innocuous enough to make it on international platforms like Netflix, while still hinting at socialist values such as collectivism and international cooperation and making allusions to Chinese traditional culture.