The Value Structure and Reconstruction of China's Rural Civilization in the New Era——An Exploration of Rural Revitalization through the Rejuvenation of Rural Civilization

Rural civilization is a pattern of human civilization that is profoundly linked with values. Rural revitalization means the rejuvenation of rural civilization under new historical circumstances. To that end, it is necessary to adopt a holistically interpreting mode that transcends individual case...

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Main Author: Wang Zhongwu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editorial Department of Contemporary Social Sciences 2018-09-01
Series:Contemporary Social Sciences
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Online Access:https://css.researchcommons.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1154&context=journal
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Summary:Rural civilization is a pattern of human civilization that is profoundly linked with values. Rural revitalization means the rejuvenation of rural civilization under new historical circumstances. To that end, it is necessary to adopt a holistically interpreting mode that transcends individual cases, and to look through the wide-angle lens of civilization and grasp rural civilization’s development trend of “prosperity-decline-rejuvenation,” as well as its constructive route of “traditional construction-modern deconstructionneo-modern reconstruction.” This paper analyzes the “three-in-one” value structure concerning rural civilization’s being a cultural carrier, its subjective demands, and objective production, to understand and follow the diachronic evolution of the position and function of rural civilization values “from being a subject, through being an object, to being a subject.” Based on this, this paper studies the construction of a subjective rural civilization with Chinese characteristics in the new era and explores a possible approach to rural revitalization through the rejuvenation of rural civilization. Accordingly, the basic idea and strategy is to boost the rejuvenation of rural civilization through innovative time-space integration; to establish rural civilization’s subjective status and to always prioritize agricultural and rural development; to rediscover and redefine the principles, values and functions of the rural civilization construction in the new era; and to further advance campaigns of rural civilization constructions to integrate the development of urban civilization with that of rural civilization
ISSN:2096-0212