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Discuss the impact of globalization on China from culture perspective

1. Introduction

Former UN Secretary General Annan once pointed out that globalization is

an actual event which would have huge effects on the future of human race.

Globalization is led by western countries, so developing countries have

less effect in globalization (Lieber & Weisberg, 2002). Globalization

becomes a great threat and challenge to both economy safety and

sovereignty of developing countries, as well as their cultural security

(Compton, 2000). As the world’s largest developing country, China goes

faster than any other developing country in the progress of globalization.

Coupled with the complex environment of globalization, many social facets

in China are being or have been deeply influenced by globalization. Among

these influences, China’s cultural development is in a much more

dangerous situation. Globalization is a actually, double-edged sword,

which brings people both challenges and opportunities.

2. Challenges of globalization to Chinese culture

2.1 Decline of traditional festivals

In the process of globalization and with the expansion of cultural

communication, western culture sweeps China and of course, this is normal.

Only absorbing and integrating foreign culture element can guarantee a

national culture a remarkable development. In this culture exchanging

progress, people should hold on to the bottom line of national culture.

However, as western festivals enter China, more and more Chinese favor

foreign festivals rather than their own. Some are indifferent to

traditional Chinese festivals and even forget them (Jie, 2003). Certainly,

the hype of foreign festivals by the advertisers is one of the reasons.

However, what is deeply reflected by this phenomenon is that Chinese are

showing a status of bigotry and inapplicability to the globalization1 / 9

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(Liu, 2004). It is the bigotry and inapplicability that leads to the great

endangerment of traditional Chinese festivals.

2.2 Insufficient cultural creative ability

Chinese culture and technology cannot make a breakthrough during the

feudalism times (Huot, 2000). In the 21th century, feudal forces no longer

exist. However, Chinese technology, along with the culture, is still on

hold, which may be caused in part by globalization. In the process of

globalization, China has introduced a great number of modern cutting-edge

technologies. This would have been a good thing. However, the problem is

that the dependence on foreign science and technology is too large (Huot,

2000). People only pay attention to introduction but they barely devote

themselves to analyzing and digesting the essence of these technologies.

This phenomenon directly impairs the ability of self-dependent

innovation.

2.3 Insufficient cultural autonomy

The process of cultural globalization will inevitably lead to conflicts

of various ethnic cultures round the world. A typical example is that the

US-led western culture spreads to occupy the dominance of the global

culture. It stands in a strong position, forming the so-called "cultural

hegemony" (Compton, 2000). Western culture has a powerful integration

capability. It strongly radiates other developing countries on national

culture. Chinese people are attracted by the highly developed western

culture. After reexamining lagging factors within Chinese culture,

phenomenon of westernization appears on the surface of Chinese material

culture (Guthrie, 2012). For example, dissimilation in language and

character, craze for Chinese brands in English names, going abroad craze

and so on. This also explains that China is influenced by

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western capitalist culture when it comes to the development of material

culture. Facing the highly developed western capitalist material culture,

Chinese people are in an extremely passive state. This penetrates further

into the deep layer of Chinese culture. Chinese people are lack of autonomy

in the development process of national culture.

3. Opportunities for Chinese culture brought by globalization

3.1 Government’s powerful guiding function to the development of

national culture

Among the course of reform and opening up, Chinese government introduced

a series of measures for the preservation and development of national

culture. Through cultural legislation, cultural protection systems and

policies, cultural management and other means, China had effectively

resisted globalization cultural risk to Chinese culture. It shows a

powerful guiding function for the development of Chinese culture. For

instance, central and local governments at all levels actively exploit

the advantages of unique culture to declare world heritages (Bergsten,

2008). From the terms of legislation, Chinese government has already set

the Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Sweeping-Tomb Festival and

other traditional festivals as national festivals. This indicates that

Chinese government begins to attach importance to traditional Chinese

culture.

3.2 Radiant national culture on the world stage

China's national culture has some backward cultural factors, but overall,

China's national culture still has a lot of essence. And some people hold

a kind of “western fawning" in mind. This exhibits a shortage of national

self-confidence and national pride. China, an ancient civilized country

with 5000 years of history, was long regarded as a mysterious nation by

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westerners. With the accelerating process of globalization, exchange and

dissemination between Chinese culture and foreign cultures move on

rapidly. For example, China has built up many Confucius Institutes in many

countries in the world. A craze of learning Chinese is sweeping the world.

More and more foreigners are attracted by the unique charisma of Chinese

culture. This phenomenon demonstrates a Chinese saying, “the more ethnic,

the more cosmopolitan” (Pieterse, 2009). Chinese classical Confucian

culture of harmony is a great reference to solving the conflict in

international relations at present. Chinese culture has shown a dazzling

brilliance through international cultural exchange and interaction in the

process of globalization on the world stage.

4. National culture protection strategies under the background of

globalization

Globalization is indeed a profound historic change of society. Exploring

for the protection strategies of ethnic culture in the process of

globalization has a considerable strategic significance for China's own

development. In the context of globalization, through reasonable and

effective means, protecting the nation's outstanding characteristics of

cultural helps promote Chinese fine national cultural traditions,

maintain a relatively stable social and cultural system, thus to

contribute to the consolidation of the stability of the regime (Lu & Lu,

2001). It also contributes to respect and protect China’s ethnic

excellent cultures, thus to build a harmonious culture.

4.1 Further deepen government’s guiding role in national culture

protection

On the one hand, government should do good advocacy and mobilization.

Advocating the social significance and importance of the protection of

the excellent national culture through specialized agencies and a variety

of convenient social media tools to the general public; mobilizing the

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public to protect the excellent national culture through a variety of

strong public opinions. On the other hand, government should enhance its

administrative management skill in protecting national culture5 / 9

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(Jie, 2003). Government can form an expert group to develop more

scientific national culture protecting policies.

4.2 Further strengthen legislation to protect national culture

In order to ensure the protection of national culture and related

management policies have legal basis, China's legislature should

accelerate the pace of legislation protecting national culture according

to China’s current situation. Through related scientific and reasonable

cultural legislation, China is able to make sure that each level of

government could do its job normatively and scientifically in this

protection (Huot, 2000). Only the normalization and scientificalness in

national culture protection process are secured, will it be possible to

win the protection more support and participation from the public, thus

to achieve reasonable and effective protection for the excellent national

culture.

4.3 Positively explore the joint points between foreign cultures and

national culture

Protection of national culture does not mean denying the entire foreign

culture invasion (Guthrie, 2012). If people want the national culture to

grow and spread, sometimes it requires cultural workers to pay attention

to seeking joint points between foreign cultures and native culture.

Generally, there are much more advanced elements in foreign cultures.

Cultural workers should extract the essence of foreign culture, take

current situation of national culture as reference and then find out joint

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s between the two cultures. Under such circumstance, Chinese culture can

be more vigorous and energetic.

4.4 Transform the protection of national culture into a turning point

for economic development

Culture, as an industry, will bring very significant social and economic

benefits through rational exploitation. In the process of protecting

national culture, people can dig through the depth of inherent

characteristics of national culture to develop a variety of cultural and

ethnic characteristics-related tourism (Liu, 2004). People can do works

about arts and crafts design, production and sales whose theme is

associated with excellent national culture. By transforming the

protection of national culture into a turning point for economic

development, government let people, especially people who love and have

a good knowledge of national culture, get considerable social and economic

benefits, thus to attract more and more people to pay attention to the

protection work of national culture.

5. Conclusion

Chinese people have a brilliant and 5000 year-long history, which brought

the eastern world even the entire globe a wide and profound influence.

In the international background of globalization, development of Chinese

culture is facing severe challenges as well as opportunities. It is

necessary for Chinese people to seize all opportunities the globalization

has provided, with the brave spirit of openness, to absorb the essence

of western culture and to emphasize the intrinsic spiritual values of

national culture at the same time, thus to obtain new development

opportunities during the integration with foreign cultures and to realize

the modernization of Chinese culture.6 / 9

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