Culture Industry: Culture in Transformation

Author: Li Xiangmin
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: The global trend of economic globalization, the multipolarization of politics, and the great development of the information technology revolution have broken the original cultural isolation, creating a pluralistic cultural landscape that includes advanced and backward cultures, healthy and decadent cultures, traditional and modern cultures, as well as national and foreign cultures, all interwoven in a complex state. Among these cultures, there is both mutual absorption, borrowing, penetration, and integration, as well as competition, exclusion, resistance, and struggle. It is particularly noteworthy that a few powerful Western cultural countries, leveraging their strong capital, advanced information means, and rich market operation experience, have formed a monopoly over the global cultural circulation system. This not only allows them to gain enormous cultural profits but also vigorously promotes cultural hegemonism, which not only affects the survival and development of diverse ethnic cultures but also threatens the cultural sovereignty and security of developing countries. This book is divided into five parts: Spiritual Economy, Digital Culture, Creative Industries, Cultural System, and Cultural Market.