China’s President Pushes Back Against Western Culture
President Hu Jintao of China has said that the West is trying to dominate China by spreading its culture and ideology and that China must strengthen its cultural production to defend against the assault, according to an essay in a Communist Party policy magazine published this week.
Mr. Hu’s words signaled that a major policy initiative announced last October would continue well into 2012.
The essay, which was signed by Mr. Hu and based on a speech he gave in October, drew a sharp line between the cultures of the West and China and effectively said the two sides were engaged in an escalating culture war. It was published in Seeking Truth, a magazine founded by Mao Zedong as a platform for establishing Communist Party principles.
“We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration,” Mr. Hu said, according to a translation by Reuters.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/04/world/asia/chinas-president-pushes-back-against-western-culture.html
I've been to China several times including right now til Jan. 5. In summers I would see street dealers selling pirated copies of American films with the packaging having hilariously poor English or incorrect graphics, also known as "Chinglish". Beijing has a radio station playing American pop music, and I've heard such music played in shopping centers there too.
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