The New Ballads Campaign In 1958 Great Leap Forward Context

The year 1958 can be said to have been an extraordinary important one in the progress of the socialist reform, also a crucial period of Mao Tse-tung to conduct ideal"Communism"experiment. The new ballads campaign, just a flash in the pan, exemplifies most the Culture Leap Forward in the context of Great Leap Forward, and also embodies most the Zeitgeist. Though there are verdicts of the new ballads campaign about half a century ago, a real and evolved campaign may be reshaped under"Cultural Studies"methodology by the diachronic and synchronic analyses, the multi-dimensional and comparative ones from the historical, political, cultural, policy, diplomatic, decision-making point of view. Thus we can hold more contemplation on the"familiar but strange"Storm and Stress in China. This method is through the four parts of the dissertation, the germination of new ballads campaign; the antithesis of new ballads campaign—mental and physical treatments of intellectuals; the cultural practices of new ballads campaign; the cultural leap forward under national organization respectively. In conclusion, the collapse of ballads leap forward system symbolizes the destination of that mania times.