| This paper attempts to use interdisciplinary research approaches, standing on literary scriptures, to analyze from the perspective of history and social culture, focuses on the 1950s-1960s Shanghai women as the study object,taking Shanghai women to social labor as the starting point to discuss the content of cultural politics in the process of building a new life and ethical world The paper expands the analysis around the following four perspectives, the transformation of the new regime to the body and temperament of women, the typical image of the labor space, the formation of new family structures, and the norms of marriage and marital relationships, to explore how the new women through the labor to interact with the society at all levels, and to constitute one of the characters of the new life worldThe first chapter describes the transformation of the female body by the new regime. It discusses how the new regime built up healthy, working body to characterize the image of new Shanghai by denying the old Shanghai consumption, parasitic body and modern body through the transformation of prostitutes,further constructing body of labor aesthetics with use of the imagination of literature. This chapter explores the truth of how the new regime started with transformation of prostitutes, then led to the liberation movement of the metaphorical elimination of all "diseases", liberating people from the level of oppression being insulted, high or low, generating new bodies and reconstructing relationships between people, thus generating a new generation of nationals needed by the new life world.The second chapter focuses on the construction of Shanghai new woman's image. It expands the analysis around the educated youth, model workers,traditional women and housewives. First of all, by characterizing the image of the "Shanghai girl" in Shanghai, this paper points out how the new regime completed the construction of the new series of "Shanghai girl" images out ofShanghai through literary imagination and further characterizes the New Shanghai with the image of the new "Shanghai girl". The second it points out how the new regime built image of new woman based in Shanghai through the textile model worker, Huang Baomei, via her love and dedication to the labor work and collective spirit to highlight the working class of new woman's uprising and happy life. Again the chapter reviews how the new regime constructed the ideal of the "new women" image by taking into account of both public labor space and family space by activating traditional female image. The last section of the chapter shows how the new regime achieved the isomorphic relationship between “country ruling" and new “housekeeping" through housewives' involvement with literacy, care for the collective,good household chores, frugal home, etc. Based on transcriptions how women become new housewives.The third chapter focuses on how the new family structure was constructed.In the first quarter, it presents the change of image of "new women" taking the new political body as their "new mother" from the traditional female image which looking up toward males due to the fact which, the family is no longer the only attribution of women with the emergence of the unit; Second quarter reviews the change of literary image of mother-in-law, from the traditional"evil mother-in-law" into a supplementary role in the family, the relationship between the mother-in-law and woman becomes more moderate. Women are weakened by the weakening of their maternity positions so that their household responsibilities are passed on to the "mother-in-law", whose traditional authority is weakened, and be transformed into supporting forces inside the family; With the transformation of traditional master-follower marital relation to cooperation relation, the weakening of woman's wives role in the family threatens male's family rights and interest, and their chauvinism is challenged,but men are forced to compromise on political power and influence;new changes happen in mother-child relationship with mothers participation in social labor, having less time to take care of children, so social education especially offered by the kindergartens and schools gradually replaced the traditional family education; In addition, the tattoo takes part of the traditional roles of the motherhood, and the child's literary image has also been built into"flowers of motherland”, "little master" of the new China. This chapter focuses on reviewing how political authority worked within the family and completes the new placement of relations and roles within the family.The fourth chapter discusses "third party"?"Chen Shimei" and "divorce problem". This chapter focuses on reviewing the moral construction of men and women in marriage and marital relationships. From the stability requirements of"new life world", the guideline was applied to the marriage and marital relation of young women to prevent, restrict and even punish the third party. The Second, men are also regulated, “Chen Shimei" phenomenon was criticized and denied, any man trying to abandon his wife, to a certain extent, was subject to discipline and restriction from the organization, even subject to legal punishment. At the same time, the traditional female image attaching to male fade out in the literature,"Qin Xianglian" prototype had a new face in revolutionary era. In addition, from the maintenance of the stability of the new world of life,the new regime maximized the maintenance of marriage as its sole purpose, so the "divorce problem" became an issue of caution during years of 1950-1966. The state mediation mechanism as a third party Intervention,made divorce difficult. "Maoist civil legal system" as called by Huang Zongzhi in this period played an important role in the marriage formation and breakdown as a "third party" effect.In short, by analyzing the women of Shanghai from the 1950s to the early 1960s and analyzing their participation in the social labor, we see the overall characteristics of the new Chinese cultural politics. In the construction of a new social movement of the life world, women become the biggest beneficiaries during this period of history. Through the analysis of literary imagination and idealized design transcript and validation on historical data, this article reviews what we see the efforts from the new socialist regime in the political economy and culture construction, the efforts making "woman's liberation", "social labor" and "become the masters of the country" not just a historical discourse,but a real historical practice. |
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