On The Political Mobilization And Moral Discipline In Mass Cultural And Recreation Space

The entertainment is an important part of daily life and plays an important role todevelop part of the ideology of people. Mass cultural and recreation space is a culturaland entertainment centers belong to the public, it not only provide entertainment, but alsoclosely linked to people’s daily lives and the concept of attitude. It becomes an importantplatform for political groups to conduct political mobilization and moral discipline.Hankou public park as the typical of the mass culture and recreation space in modernChinese cities, it often served as the role of political guidance. In the "NorthernExpedition" period of cooperation between the Communist Party and the Kuomintang, itwas the center of the propaganda of anti-imperialism and the warlords, both the KMTand the CPC promoted political mobilization in it and made it a position to arouse thepeople against imperialism and the warlords revolutionary zeal. In the late NorthernExpedition, it became the weapon for KMT to spread ideology of the KMT and to buildpolitical authority, in this space, the KMT taken various ways to publicize the rulinglegitimacy, to enhance the ruling prestige and to consolidate the dictatorship. At the sametime, the Hankou public park as the place of a popular daily carnival, it also shoulderedthe moral discipline on the public function. First of all is the "weathering admonition",mainly for the establishment of the Theatre Review Committee and rigorous examinationof the performance content. Followed is to spread daily life education by shaping thepublic image and develop the public demeanor.Through the perspective of Hankou public park, we can see that the mass culturaland recreation space is a big stage of political mobilization and moral enlightenment forrulers. The mode of operation are also various, it mainly including five categories, theyare the type of amusement, assembly-style, interactive, admonished and symbols. Itallows people access to education in the entertainment. It helps rulers to strengthen thesocial regulation, to promote the formation and to encourage the development of personalideological and political character. By this, it played an active role in the progress ofsociety. At the same time, the mass culture and recreation space has the potentialadvantages of more coverage, more attractive, more penetration force because of itscharacteristics of its inclusive, entertaining and close to life. In short, the history of public park in Hankou fully demonstrated that though thecarefully operation, the mass culture and recreation space also can plays the functions ofpolitical indoctrination and moral discipline by its unique approach and advantages, italso can reflects the great social mobilization force.