The Adaptation Of Red Detachment Of Women Adaptation And The Characteristics Of“Red Classics”

“Red Detachment of Women” is a historical fact of Chinese revolution. After China was founded, literature writers created Red Detachment of Women in a variety of art forms such as reportage, local opera, film, ballet and television drama based on the fact.The ballet Red Detachment of Women in the form of model opera is adapted on the basis of film Red Detachment of Women. This paper focuses on the analysis of adaptation characteristics of the ballet Red Detachment of Women; explains the artistic effect of such adaptation; reveals the relationship between background including literary and artistic policy and political environment at that time and such adaptation, and then further explore the commonality between characteristics of Red Detachment of Women and characteristics of “Red Classics”. The whole paper includes five parts:Introduction: Summarize the existing research achievements connected with Red Detachment of Women; state that the paper will start from the adaptation difference of Red Detachment of Women to explore the relationship between morphological characteristics of Red Detachment of Women and literary and artistic policy as well as political environment; and then explore the characteristics of “Red Classics” contained.Chapter One: Systemize the creation and adaptation process of Red Detachment of Women, and clarify lots of historical facts in regard of “naming” and copyright. Briefly introduce the creation time, respective plot characteristics and influence of reportage, Hainan Opera, film and the ballet Red Detachment of Women.Chapter Two: Analyze the similarities and differences of Red Detachment of Women in the forms of ballet and film in details; illustrate specific plots of adding slogans and quotations, delete hints of love such as coin and reunion, and illustrate the modification of ten adaptations including renga of Detachment of Women. The paper then indicate that such changes further deepen and sublimate the theme of ballet Red Detachment of Women, make thoughts and emotions more pure and make manifestation more clear. Thus, the ballet Red Detachment of Women impresses us with distinctive time features by its unique artistic style.Chapter Three: Analyze from macro level, that is to say, the relationship between the work and reality, the ballet Detachment of Women has its own features: legendary and realistic revolution subject, ancient and modern manifestation at home and abroad, clear and spirited artistic style, etc. Such features are closely related to literary and artistic policy and political environment. The present successful experiences and right way of Chinese revolution based on realistic revolution, and extract ambitious thought subject and revolutionary ideal, besides, present those thoughts and ideals clearly and briefly in various ways such as “making the past serve the present and making foreign things serve China”, thus to educate and inspire people. The above mentioned is not only resulted from literature writers’ catering and adapting to realistic literary and artistic policy and political environment consciously or unconsciously but also an ideological trend of literary and artistic creation at that time. Therefore, the ballet Red Detachment of Women has many characteristics in common with “Red Classics” works created then, which means characteristics of Red Detachment of Women contains and embodies main characteristics of “Red Classics”.The end part of this paper indicates that: characteristics of Red Detachment of Women originate from history and culture circumstances at that time and “Red Classics” still has vitality, but which is not the purpose of this paper. The paper only starts from the idea of “one kind of literature emerges from one era” to systemize and reveal how characteristics of Red Detachment of Women which is one of “Red Classics” come into being and become prominent gradually in what kind of literary and artistic policy and political environment.