Variable Punk Culture in China

Tianqi Chen (Robin)

SOCL 100

Ronald Hopper

December 1, 2013

Variable Punk Culture in China

Happen to be traced back to non-mainstream punk culture in Europe. Punk culture is an underground culture, complaints and dissatisfaction with the reality of repression, requiring changes in the status quo. The subsequent emergence of punk music, punk fashion, although giving the impression of dark excesses, but also full of youthful vigor unique youth, imagination, creativity and energy, in this sense, it can be said that the creation of a non- mainstream culture and ideology spiritual source.

Now young people in China, the punk culture actively side completely remove, basically eliminated the punk culture in the artistic and aesthetic feeling, leaving only clothes and crazy behavior. This creates a non-mainstream culture in China now. Because the mainstream non-mainstream repudiated the positive things, inherited and developed the mainstream negative, outdated, rotten thing! The outlook on life, the aesthetic conceptions of the mainstream and non-mainstream sense, values, and world view is the opposite! The mainstream and non-mainstream living habits, hobbies, also are the opposite!

They like self-timer. With her hair covering part of the face, V -shaped gesture slightly over his eyes, and then press the shutter yourself. After the computer repair large eyes, face marble being blue, marked with prominent cheek blush, the typical non-mainstream pictures to do the work.