Abstract:  The “onesided” foreign policy and a host of ideological transformations offered nationwide discourse generating mechanisms for the Soviet aesthetic discourse which became the dominant content of “aesthetics in China”, leading to the discourse hegemony of Soviet Marxist Aesthetic Studies in China. The aesthetic research during the “SeventeenYear” period (from the founding of new China to the eve of the Cultural Revolution) was to some extent a process of the Soviet aesthetic discourse system and its research paradigm squeezing and overshadowing the Western aesthetic discourse system and its research paradigm. Due to the narrow research perspective and outdated research methods, the originally diverse aesthetic studies were narrowed down to the “reflective aesthetics” based on philosophical ontology, simplified into the “subjectiveobjective” and “materialismidealism” labeling process, and finally reduced to the bigotry of “Chinese Aesthetics” incurred by the lack of rationale.

Key words: SeventeenYear period, Soviet aesthetics, aesthetics in China, Chinese aesthetics, research paradigm, bigotry