Abstract:Traditional Chinese opera is a public cultural space and entertainment, and also an excellent medium for value dissemination and moral education. It is interlinked with national ideology in spirit. During the early days of new China, for the construction of a new national ideology, we had to first make opera artists identify with the new country and influence people by means of opera performance so as to make the new government and the new society widely acknowledged by the public. Through various reform measures such as “transforming artists, transforming the system, and revising plays”, the new government helped the artists identify more strongly with the socialist new country under the governance of the communist party in which the people hold power. Through the three stages of revising old plays, creating new historical plays, and composing modern dramas, the opera reform helped make the national identity of socialism widely accepted by the public, and thus fulfilled its historical mission of legitimizing the communist takeover of China.
苏咏喜. 契合与认同:建国初期戏曲改革与国家意识形态建构[J]. 《深圳大学学报》(人文社科版), 2017, 34(4): 12-17.
SU Yong-xi. Correspondence and Identification:Opera Reform and State Ideology Construction during the Early Days of New China. , 2017, 34(4): 12-17.