Abstract
In the era of what Terry Eagleton terms as "After-Theory," cultural criticism practice in China needs to re-problematize its research, redefine its object with a focus on the local culture and sharpen its research methodology in response to current theoretical transformations so as to delineate some traits in the development of contemporary cultural development out of various cultural phenomena, currents and conflicts. The paper claims that the cultural criticism should engage in participatory research of "the dominant culture in formation," and that this dominant culture can be named as "mainstream mass culture." The current dominant cultural production mode is increasingly oriented toward media technology and consumption, with the dominance of pure literature, high-brow arts and elite culture on the wane, and it is a state of cultural industry infused with power, capital, technology and the resultant cultural tastes. Chinese contemporary cultural criticism needs to invest in more critical question and constructive participation to intervene the formation of the dominant culture.
First Page
12
Last Page
18
Recommended Citation
Zeng, Jun. 2012. "Responding to the Formation of Dominant Culture and its Production Mode: Contemporary Chinese Cultural Criticism in the Era of After-Theory." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (2): pp.12-18. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss2/16
