Identity Transformation and Image Reconstruction of Old-Society Artists in the Early Period of New China
The identity transformation from old-society artists to literary and artistic workers is an important perspective to observe the shaping of social fashion in new China.In the early days of New China,the CPC carried out a comprehensive remolding of the artists and literary and artistic work in the old society.Through a series of guidelines and policies,a large number of old-society artists gained a deeper understanding of their own shortcomings,further strengthened their understanding of the CPC and their love for socialism,and carried out self-transformation with a shift from passivity to initiativeness and from reluctance to self-consciousness.As a result,the whole society formed a social acknowledgement of"literary and artistic workers",while the latter were liberated from the formerly despised identity of"clown"and realized identity transformation and image reconstruction through becoming a part of the working people who cooperatively built the new society.Sorting out the identity transformation and image reconstruction of old-society artists in the early years of New China can provide historical references for upholding the people's stand on the arts in the new era and building a socialist cultural power.