Abstract:
For the issue of “expression of the belief of socialist China”, Chinese artists differ in their attitudes to treating the “unrealistic world” described as a “world of feudal superstition”. This paper selects the three artistic female images: Xier, Sister of Xianglin and Li Shuangshuang, taken respectively from three different films made during the first 17 years after the founding of new China. Based on the portrayals of the three female characters in these films, the paper attempts to testify the following hypothesis: The difference between artistic individuals and specific historical periods in expressing the belief went through a historical deformation. Since 1958, the “belief” stated as feudal superstition was to be completely substituted with a socialist utopia, or rather, a communist belief. To us, the socialist utopia was also imagination of “the other world”, which is a double representation of realistic experience of Chinese socialist revolution and communist movement in realistic life and artistic production.
