“文化研究”引入我国学界已有十多个年头,然而真正有分量的成果却鲜有问世。这一研究炮制出的大量文字甚至至今仍在原地踏步,未能跳出“何谓文化研究”这一最初的提问。本文试图对文化研究之所以陷入目前困境的多种原由做出分析,认为其中最主要的,乃是我们从一开始就把本应是批评实践的文化研究,误当作所谓的“理论”去没完没了地揣摩深究。结果,我们始终未能找准自己的研究对象,始终未能提出应该解决的问题,致使研究陷入低水平重复的怪圈。本文提出,我们应改弦更张,认清文化研究的实用性宗旨,把对文化研究的伪理论兴趣转向对于现实文化现象的个案分析,这样,我们才有希望早日走出目前的困境。 “Cultural Studies ” has been introduced to Chinese academia for more than ten years, but the real achievements have rarely come out. The vast amount of texts that this research concocted even now stands still and fails to jump out of the initial question of “what is cultural research?” This article attempts to analyze the many reasons why cultural studies are trapped in the current predicament, and thinks that the most important thing is that we mistook the cultural studies which should be criticized for practice from the very beginning as the so-called “theory” Go to endless study. As a result, we have never been able to identify our own subjects and have failed to come up with any problems that should be solved, causing the study to fall into the trap of low-level repetition. This paper proposes that we should make some changes, recognize the practical purpose of cultural studies, turn the pseudo-theoretical interest in cultural studies into a case study of the actual cultural phenomena so that we have hope to get out of the current dilemma as soon as possible.