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The Influence of Cultural Globalization on China I. Introduction With the development of world economy and technology, the world is becoming a mutually connected and dependent web system. This is so called globalization. “Globalization is sometimes interpreted or presented as a trend resulting from technological innovations, and certainly such innovation has fuelled globalization process” (Michie 3). Thus from culture to economy, from politics to law, nearly all these fields are involved in this system. Globalization has become an overwhelming trend in the world，from the culture point of view, it is cultural globalization. Cultural globalization has not a certain definition. Technology has now created the possibility of global culture. The Internet, fax, satellite, and cable TV are sweeping away cultural boundaries. Cultural globalization symbolizes that the world culture has entered into a new phase. It is a trend which in the process of capital expanding, the world is linked into one tight combination, every country’s culture in the world would touch, conflict, intercourse, assimilate, and merge. It promotes integration and removes not only the cultural barriers but also the negative dimensions of culture. It is a vital step towards a more stable world and better lives for the people in it. As the increasing of the social exchange, culture is no longer confined in one nation or state. This makes human beings overstep the confines of districts or nations. As the largest developing country in the world, China will be influenced profoundly by this trend. There are both opportunity and challenge for China. The positive aspects refer to that the cultural globalization provides the opportunity for China to introduce the foreign advanced culture, at the same time, Chinese culture will walk into the world and another chance is to change the Chinese outmoded culture. As we all know, in China the cultural development in different regions are not balanced. So the negative