Cultural life of Vietnameses after twenty years of renewal

Tóm tắt

The article presents a general view of cultural life of Vietnam after twenty years of renewal, pointing out the positive achievements and the limitations in the cultural life.
The article is composed of 6 sections. In the first section - “Culture renewal in terms of political-legal aspect”, the author asserted the political-legal achievements, which have
been realized thanks to the leadership of the Vietnamese Communist Party. In the section 2 – “Absorbing world cultural values in order to enrich Vietnamese culture” – the author analyzed the positive results and the limitations in the domain of cinema, photography, modern music, sports, miss competition and fashion model show, festivals, literature and art... The section 3 analyzes the process of “Restoring and
bringing into play traditional cultural values”. In the last section, - “Issue arising from culture renewal”, the author pointed out the disease of “abuse” in diverse domains of culture and in the exercising of cultural liberty. And the author concluded:
Cultural life asks to be managed scientifically and reasonably, that is it must be managed by laws. This is the manifestation of political culture’s role. Only so we could build up a culture that is humane, democratic, human-right respectable and constitutes the dynamic for development.