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Title:: The Historical Variation of Revolutionary Modernity and Enlightenment Modernity: The Aesthetic Character of Chinese Red Drama in the 20th Century

Keywords:: revolutionary modernity; enlightenment modernity; 20th Century; Chinese red drama; aesthetic character

Abstract:: Under the different projections of the Revolutionary Modernity and the Enlightenment Modernity, literature and art tend to present completely different styles and features. Since the late 1920s, under the leadership of the Party, the drama has undergone a series of changes ranging from the red drama of Communist-controlled China to the left-wing drama of the Kuomintang-controlled area to the drama of the liberated area to the 17-year socialist drama to the mainstream(main melody)drama of the new period. In the course of nearly three-quarters of a century's development of red drama, the pursuits of Revolutionary Modernity and Enlightenment Modernity, due to their different historical circumstances, have been struggling with each other in strength and weakness, so that the red drama is diverse and dynamic in aesthetic quality in different historical periods and even in the different stages of the same historical period.