Daniel Lynch in his essay on `Dilemmas of Thought Work in Fin de Siecle China` suggests that the Communist Party has lost its grip on the key instruments by which it controls popular attitudes and beliefs. What is the basis of that conclusion and how pers

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24 March 2008

Daniel Lynch and His "Dilemmas of 'Thought Work ' in Fin-de-Siecle China

Introduction

With the transition to the new market ideals , and with the need to transform the outdated beliefs of the socialist society , the Chinese Communist Party has faced a major problem of controlling "the thought work " of the Chinese people . The development of the new market economy has replaced traditional socialist values with the need to pursue profitability , and to find direct connections between sellers and consumers

. As a result of such transformation , the Party has become unable to further control the proliferation of the ideas which did not conform to socialist norms and ideas . In his work Daniel Lynch explicitly and persuasively analyzes , why the Communist party has lost its grip on the instruments which controlled the performance of the "thought work " in China

Evidently , the transition to the new market economy has caused major transformation of people 's attitudes towards their well-being , their cultural beliefs and their interests beyond socialism . For those who make business on culture , socialist values no longer represent the source of financial profit . In Lynch 's view , the need to transfer China to free market economy confronts the idea of keeping state control over media , books , cultural sites , and other "thought " instruments "The primary source of income for Chinese media today - not that they have been made 'responsible for profits and losses ' - is advertising (Lynch 175 . The key phrase here is "responsible for profits and losses " This responsibility is the direct product of marketing economy , and Lynch takes this responsibility as the basis of why the Communist authorities constantly fail to return the long-lasting control over all means of information media

There are several aspects which Lynch emphasizes in his work . These aspects are actually the bases to assert that the Communists have really , factually , and forever lost its ability to control the "thought performance of the Chinese public . First , Lynch refers to numerous campaigns aimed at curbing the proliferation of various "anti-socialist materials in the form of books . Those campaigns were aimed at seizing and burning the illegal informational materials , and have proved to be complete failures . Lynch uses an extremely powerful argument when he speaks about the relation of books to Cultural Revolution in China "Events of the late 1980s and early 1990s had shown quite clearly that many Chinese citizens enjoyed consuming politically-incorrect cultural products (Lynch 179 . That was the first sign of cultural attitudes commercialization . The publishers were no longer interested in printing politically-correct materials . Financial profits have become more important than the considerations of morality and virtue so arduously protected by the Chinese authorities . Eventually , the Chinese government has recognized the need to commercialize the book market . That commercialization required that numerous politically incorrect but commercially successful products entered the market . As a result , the situation in the publishing field has become the first sign of the weakening state control over the instruments of the public thought...