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| Value Appeals in China’s Cultural Policies(1981-2020): a Lexical Analysis of the Five-year Plan Texts |
| ZHOU Zheng-bing |
| Cultural Industry Department, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, 100081 |
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Abstract Since the 1980s, governments of many countries have introduced cultural policies. Due to the need for public decision-making, people begin to make in-depth discussion about cultural values, and have basically formed an analytical framework of external and internal values. Based on this analytical framework, this paper conducts word frequency statistics of the value appeals and their order in the cultural section of the five-year plan texts (1981-2020), important texts of China's public cultural policies in the new period. From the statistics, textual evidence of cultural value appeals can be obtained and analyzed. The findings from the word frequency statistics show that words about external value account for 94%, while those about internal value only account for 4%. This indicates that public policy in cultural value shows an obvious tendency of instrumentalization, and its internal value is significantly underestimated and suppressed. This tendency and its underlying reasons require deep reflection by academics and should be given more attention to by public decision-makers. Otherwise, the excessive instrumentalization tendency of public policies in the cultural field will not only fail to change the situation that there are many good works in the cultural field, but not the top ones, but also get in the way of the healthy development of culture.
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Received: 20 August 2019
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