Abstract:

The current Chinese popular culture, produced in company with market economy, meets with cultural needs of the masses at various levels in some degree, but such a cultural formation is not a kind of "culture of the masses", nor a kind of "cultural popularization". Moreover, it is widely divergent from the so-called "popularization of art and literature" or "art and literature for the masses" since the Yan' an period; it is a kind of commercial culture homogeneous with the Western "cultural industry".

Key words: popular culture, popularization, commercial culture