Shanghai Workers' Culture Palace Research (1950-1990)

After the founding of the People’s Republic of China,China began to study the Soviet model in all aspects of society.To meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the working class and satisfy the amateur life of the workers,in 1950 s,a large number of Workers’ Cultural Palace and clubs had been established in the urban areas of our country,which simultaneously showed the superiority of the working class and the superiority of the socialist system,achieved high recognition of the new regime.The Shanghai Workers’ Culture Palace was one of the earlier batch of workers’ cultural palaces built by the Soviet cultural palace system.As a leisure,entertainment and political public space,it provided the workers and the whole society with culture,entertainment,study and communication.At the same time,the discourse of various political content and national construction was integrated into the general style activities.It strived to play its role in teaching and learning.While consciously participating in civic activities,the citizens were unconsciously incorporated into the system of training socialist workers education.Therefore,this paper reviews the historical development of Shanghai Workers’ Cultural Palace in the 40 years after the founding of new China.On the one hand,it tries to restore the development trajectory of the cultural palace system in China,and on the other hand,it also shows the practice of the workers’ cultural palace to realize the goal of working class service,revealing that its essence is the system product and governance tool of the combination of state power and party revolutionary idea.This paper is divided into four chapters.The first chapter mainly combing the background process of the establishment of the post-founding cultural palace system and the preparation of the Shanghai Workers’ Cultural Palace.The second chapter introduces it,since opened 40 years by the general situation of the historical development to stagnation and transformation,involving the classification and functions of the departments to cultural activities with the literature and art groups,such as its job task content indicators,such as instruction is on the basis of national policy and plan,and according to the national focus changes and make timely adjustments.The third chapter mainly analyzes it,as the function of public space and its political implications from the perspective of people,it was a place for recreation,for improving workers’ scientific and cultural quality,and exchanging production experience.From the perspective of the government,it was a space for political propaganda and mobilization to construct the workers’ culture through the activities of the lectures on current affairs and the exhibition of education,and the training of the workers.The government and the people were in conflict with the traditional entertainment or revolution entertainment,while the working class had more collective memory of it and the entertainment and cultural activities.The fourth chapter analyzes the radiation and diffusion of the influence of Shanghai workers’ cultural palace.It trains the professional talent team and the playwright group after the cultural revolution.In addition,it also accepted delegation of ethnic minorities and foreign domestic workers union delegation visits and exchanges,embodied the socialist countries Combination of the proletarian class of workers,peasants and soldiers,as the window of the national image and the template to show and prove the superiority of the socialist system.