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Xi Jinping stresses the importance of culture in building a modern socialist society
(socialistchina.org)
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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I hope this involves stuff like funding primary/secondary/tertiary education in the arts and opportunities for the display and appreciation of art such as concerts, festivals, competitions, and, museums, and not just commissioning obvious propaganda and tightening censorship. As much as I love communist media such as Minning Town and 1921, it's not improving the image of China or inspiring cultural self-confidence in people who aren't already pro-China. Instead, we need more contemporary and not-obviously-political works like Three Body and The Wandering Earth, Lexie Liu's The Happy Star, and The King's Avatar. And for traditional culture, independent creators like Dianxi Xiaoge, Chef Wang Gang, and Yin Que Shi Ting have done a million times more than anything commissioned by the out-of-touch geezers who run the propaganda department. What these all have in common is that they're made by people who have a genuine passion in an art or craft and have the opportunity to create works on their own terms.
And of course, there are things that should be done to promote desirable cultural values other than through art and media. It could be things like promoting group activities, team sports, and socializing in school while reducing the harsh workloads that many students face to a reasonable level, for example.
Have you read any Julius Deutsch on sport? He tried to develop a system of proltarian sport. Would be good to see China develop that and a similarly proletarian culture for export as well as domestically. It's doing some movie stuff but the Deutsch thing is decidedly less commodity-based. Maybe it's already doing similar things – it's hard to learn of this kind of thing from the outside.
Here's a review: https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/8257_antifascism-sports-sobriety-review-by-mark-hayes/