A Study On Deng Xiaoping’s Thoughts Of National Cultural Security

"National Culture Security" refers to a country culture with a distinctive ethnic, national and institutional brand is free of threats from cultures and ideas outside this country. In the era of globalization, the soft power, whose core content is culture, is becoming an important agenda of many countries. With the gradual deepening of integration into the globalization process, China is facing a worsening cultural security situation and has to solve various problems in this field. Therefore, scholars need to strengthen the study of cultural security to safeguard national cultural safety. From national policy-making level, the leaders of our country repeatedly emphasize on the need to safeguard national cultural safety and promote the issue of cultural safety and cultural development to the level of overall strategy, which shows the importance and urgency of cultural security issues.As the chief architect of the reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping put forward not only the strategic goals of China’s overall strategic design, but also the basic idea of national cultural security situation and the safeguard acts. However, Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security, is though very abundant, but not open-and-shut. Therefore, detailed and systematic study of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security, including summing up the origin of Deng Xiaoping’s ideas of national cultural security, its features, its content and development, is necessary. This paper is to do these things.This article is divided into six parts:1) Introduction;2) Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security and its direct source of ideas;3) the main features of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security;4) Deng Xiaoping’s basic ideas of safeguard national cultural safety;5) the development of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security;6) the inspiration of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security.In the first part, this article will focus on the background and significance of this study, its literature summarization, theoretical tools and methods, the basic ideas and logical structure, and the innovation and deficiency of this paper. These make a pre-theoretical groundwork and frame design for this study.In the second part, the article will first define National Cultural Security, including ideology security and ethnic culture security. After that, the article will discuss the meaning and its basic content of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural safety, defining Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security as mainly two elements:"Defending" and "Building". These two elements are all related to the dimensions of ideology security and ethnic culture security. And then, the article will describe Mao Zedong’s thoughts of national cultural security, the direct source of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security.In the third part, the paper will summarize five main features of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security, namely:firm principled character, long-term strategy, clear pertinence, distinctive timing and realistic scientism. Integration of these features can help us better understand the main content and the natural spirit of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security.In the fourth part, the article will follow the logical system of the previous design, and describe Deng Xiaoping’s basic ideas of safeguard national cultural safety, namely:Marxism is the guiding ideology to safeguard national cultural safety; the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the organizational guarantee for safeguarding national cultural security; Two Hundred Policies is the guideline of national cultural safety; the ideological and cultural education is an effective way to safeguard national cultural safety; the basic premise of the construction of national cultural security is to safeguard national sovereignty; the construction of national cultural security strategy is based on economic development; the core of the national cultural security building is the construction of a high degree of socialist spiritual civilization. The article at the same time demonstrates the basic content of "Defending" and "Building" of national cultural security.In the fifth part, the article will focus on the description to the third generation and fourth generation leaders’ inheriting and developing of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security, such as:adhering to the guiding position of Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thoughts; looking on the issue of national cultural security from a strategic perspective; insisting on the Two Hundred Policies; emphasizing on the development of education. The article will accentuate Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao’s innovation and development to Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security.In the final part of this article, the author will summarize the inspiration of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts of national cultural security. These inspirations include: we must adhere to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts; attach importance to the material foundation of the cultural security; the safeguard of national cultural safety must be targeted; regard cultural security as part of national interest. In the process of summarizing, the two elements ("Defending" and "Building") and the two dimensions (ideology security and ethnic culture security) are concerned.Academic research on the issue of national culture security is in the ascendant, the study of Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts is also enduring. This paper deepens not only the academic study of Deng Xiaoping Theory, but also the study of the national cultural security issues. The author of this paper will continue to focus on this area of research, hoping to be able to extract more ideas to safeguard national cultural safety.