"Socialist educational dramas"in the 1960s were centered on emotional issues.Through focusing on intrinsic connections be-tween emotions and the Chinese revolution,the use of class identity as the criterion for defining emotions led to revolutionizing emotions,and hence,a new type of emotions came into being.This new type stemmed from a redefinition of the public/private relationship,not so much in terms of a simple manifestation of a binary relationship between public and private,but rather a reconstruction of the political connection between public and private.As a result,a great deal of political sentiments emerged during the revolution,resulting in emo-tionalizing revolution,or in other words,politicizing lyrical expressions.Revolutionary emotions had a distinct temporal/spatial structure,especially reflected through the narratives of revolutionary family history.Narrating revolutionary family history was a response to,al-though it did not fundamentally resolve,the emotional crisis given rise by the"continuous revolution".Instead,it reinforced the spread of politicization of revolutionary emotions.The formation of the temporal/spatial structure of revolutionary emotions reflected not only the historical demands for subject reconstruction in the revolutionary politics of the 1960s,but also the emotional/cultural conflicts inherent in this process.