Topic > The Study of Public Sphere in Modern China - 3270

IntroductionAs we all know, recently China is the fastest growing developing country in the world, in this situation; people in China are more concerned about the development of public awareness, which represents individual freedom of thought and civic consciousness. Pushing citizens to identify with the public is linked together, in interaction with others, in discussions, in negotiations, universality has found consensus and common values ​​is the process of public awareness and, at the same time, promotion of citizenship active in the public sphere. Public sphere, in rhetoric, a place where citizens can express their ideas and opinions, are becoming an important concept in China in the 1990s. The concept of the public sphere was coined in the 18th century by the German scholar Hannah Arendt, with the analysis of the human condition, the origins of totalitarianism and the plight of modern constitutional issues in the public domain, thus Hannah Arendt opened the study of the theory of the sphere publishes on In 1961, the German sociologist Jürgen Habermas attributed this term in his book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere – An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (1962; English translation, 1989). He states that: “The bourgeois public sphere can be conceived above all as the sphere of private individuals coming together in the public one; they soon claimed the top-down public sphere against the public powers themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relationships in the essentially privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social work. (Harbermas, 1989: p.216) In simple terms, Habermas' vision of the public sphere focuses more on those citizens who find themselves in the condition... in the middle of the paper... even if the Internet has a monitor. and most of the negative comments will not be able to be viewed nationwide, also, many websites are blocked in mainland China, due to the stability of the company. Both reasons explain that the public sphere does not exist in China; we too could have a rudiment of the public sphere. With the increasing commercialization of mass media, the mass audience offers more choices than before, but at the same time, that audience transforms from “culture consumers” to “cultural debaters”. ”, without critical thinking, the prototype of the public sphere risks collapse. This article concludes that Habermas' notion of the public sphere can be applied to countries outside Europe and North America, even if the country is not capitalist. Even with all analysis from historical point of view, China had public sphere before, but not now.