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Cultural Studies, now an important subject in the humanities and social sciences category, has not been established as an academic discipline for long in China, as researchers have generally agreed. Though Chen Guangxing, a Cultural Studies scholar from Taiwan stresses the historical relations between the Cultural Studies and the literati tradition in China, particularly the modern tradition of cultural criticism of which Lu Xun stood out as a representative figure, such argument doesn't necessarily mean Cultural Studies as what we understand today was in existence around the May Fourth Movement (let alone in ancient China). A broad consensus in the academic community is that Cultural Studies emerged in the Chinese mainland between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The two most important reasons for this would be the influence of Cultural Studies in the West and the birth and boom of the Chinese mass culture.

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-5580-5_1

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