试论当今中国“新型”青年文化生成的可能性

Possibility of Forming“New”Youth Culture in Contemporary China

自20世纪90年代以来,随着中国社会结构的深刻变革,青年从引领现代社会政治变革和社会政治理想的"新青年"进步角色逐渐转型为引领物质消费和文化娱乐消费的"时尚达人",受到了各种推崇个人成功的流行话语的支配性影响。与之相应,相当一部分青年有了对于物质追求、消费文化和个人成功等主流观念的自觉反省和批判,并以志愿者行动等生活实践方式努力寻找超克现存主流消费文化的新路径。这些努力正在促生一种带有正面价值指向和理想维度的"新型"青年文化,后者试图在人际之间建立起共富、平等、真诚、共享和合作的关系,在人与自然之间建立起和谐共生的生态关系,在人与自我之间建立起平和自洽的和解关系。这种"新型"青年文化的生成和普及目前还受到各种因素的阻碍,需要得到成人主流社会的更多理解和支持。

Since 1990 s, with the profound transformation of social structure, the role of Chinese"new youth" as the leading pioneer for social and political change was gradually replaced by the"fashionistas"of material and entertainment consumption. They turned to be dominated by the popular discourse about personal success. Contrarily, some young people began to self-reflect and criticize the mainstream concepts such as material pursuit, consumer culture and individual success, and try to find a new path to overcome the existing mainstream consumer culture by means of volunteer activities and other life practices. These efforts are producing a kind of "new"youth culture with a positive value orientation and ideal dimension, attempting to establish the relationship of co-prosperity, equality,sincerity, sharing and cooperation between human beings, to establish the ecological relationship of harmonious co-existence between human beings and nature, and to establish a tranquil and self-consistent relationship between human beings and themselves. As this "new"youth culture is still hindered by various factors, it needs more understanding and support from the mainstream adult society.