"Spiritual Independence"and Its New Significance of the Times——The Chinese Position and National Character of Xi Jinping Thought on Culture
The spirit of a nation characterizes its lofty cultural temperament and core values,which enable it to stand resiliently among the world's nations despite enduring hardships,both internal and external,throughout its historical development.Since the modern times,the culture of the Chinese nation has been subjected to the all-round impact from Western modern civilization,including its cultural concepts and values in a holistic sense.For a time,the national culture was caught in a serious self-identification crisis and lost its backbone.Since its founding,the Communist Party of China,in leading the outstanding sons and daughters of the Chinese nation in magnificent and tortuous course of social revolution along-side great self-revolution,has always placed the construction of cultural subjectivity in a crucial posi-tion,always adhered to the historical materialism,based on the roots of fine traditional Chinese culture,and aimed at realizing the spiritual independence of the Chinese nation.It has steadfastly pushed for-ward the historical process by adapting the cultural theories of Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times.It also has formed Xi Jinping's cultural thought with a distinctive epochal features and theoretical profundity,and has opened a new chapter in the great contemporary endeavor of achiev-ing the"spiritual independence"of the Chinese nation.