
Morning in Shanghai
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[Executive Summary]
At the beginning of liberation, in the metropolis of Shanghai, which had just woken up from the dark society, a new struggle began. Xu Yide, a giant in the industrial and commercial circles and a national capitalist who built the Hujiang Spinning Factory by squeezing workers and annexing his peers, became the leading figure of chinese capital in this struggle. In shanghai's industrial and commercial circles, Xu Yide is known for his lively brain, sharp vision and fine calculations, known as the "iron abacus".
On the eve of liberation, he smuggled a large amount of cotton yarn, exchanged it for DOLLARs and Hong Kong dollars, and deposited it in foreign banks, preparing a way out for himself. After liberation, in order to make more profits, he changed his tactics to squeeze the workers, and installed traitors within the trade unions, so that they spread gossip and disintegrated the workers' fighting spirit; Bribing and bribing cadres of the tax bureau, stealing state economic intelligence, and drilling into the "star (period) two-party dinner attended by most progressive capitalists" to organize and collude against the state's policy of acquiring private industry and commerce.
Zhu Yannian, a traitorous businessman, corroded and co-opted cadres, fraudulently obtained loans, manufactured counterfeit medicines, and harmed the state and volunteer soldiers.
Under the leadership of the party, Shanghai launched a vigorous "three antis" and "five antis" movements. Xu Yide transferred floating wealth, causing the factory to stop production, engaging in offensive and defensive alliances, and stubbornly resisting. When his hidden gold is discovered, he makes a false confession in an attempt to fool through the pass. In the end, he fell into a complete isolation situation and was forced to confess to his five poisonous crimes.
Zhu Yannian was arrested and punished by the people's government because of his serious crimes and stubbornness, and his adherence to a reactionary stance.
Yu Jing, secretary of the party branch of the Hujiang Spinning Factory, because she was young and inexperienced, was deceived three times by the illusion created by Xu Yide, an old and treacherous giant. In a complex environment, under the guidance of the superior leaders, she paid attention to investigation and research, mobilized the party members and the masses, and unveiled the crime of stealing national raw cotton from the capital through key test spinning. After the "Five Antis" Movement, she paid attention to mobilizing the production enthusiasm of workers. In the movement to transform capitalist industry and commerce, she paid attention to the implementation of the party's united front policy, and relied on persuasion education and typical demonstrations of policies for the upper echelons of the bourgeoisie to promote Xu Yide and others to accept socialist transformation. Finally, the Hujiang Spinning Mill was promoted to implement a public-private partnership, and the struggle was won.
[Appreciation]
"Morning in Shanghai" is a representative work of the famous writer Zhou Erfu, and after Mao Dun's "Midnight", it is another huge work that reflects the historical fate of the Chinese national bourgeoisie. There are four books in the book. The first and second parts were born in 1958 and 1962, and the third and fourth parts were produced after the smashing of the "Gang of Four".
The work vividly shows the fierce and complicated struggle between the working class and the bourgeoisie in the process of socialist transformation of capitalist industry and commerce in our country in the early period of liberation, and depicts the tortuous course of the national bourgeoisie, under the inspiration of the party's correct line and policy, clearly understanding the future, accepting the transformation, and embarking on the socialist road.
At the beginning of liberation, when everything was in ruins and waiting to be revived, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea was now under way, the national bourgeoisie was suspicious and dissatisfied with the new Chinese regime and had illusions about the United States. The successful development of domestic land reform has aroused their fears. Under these circumstances, the national bourgeoisie launched an offensive against the New Chinese regime, using both legal and illegal means. They do not hesitate to harm the interests of the country and the people in order to reap the greatest benefits.
The Party and the government led the working class to launch the "Five Antis" movement to counter the bourgeois offensive and to carry out socialist transformation of capitalist industry and commerce. By depicting this great historical transformation, the work vividly reflects the contrast and dissipation of the forces of the working class and the bourgeoisie in the struggle, praises the correctness of the party's policy towards the national bourgeoisie, and reveals the truth that socialism must triumph.
There are many characters in the work, and there are ten bourgeois figures who attend the "Tuesday dinner party" alone. The outstanding achievement of the work is to depict a number of bourgeois figures and show their various states of mind and expressions in the early stage of socialism.
Xu Yide is the main character that the author focuses on portraying, and is the focus of contradictions and conflicts. He was shrewd and calculating. On the eve of liberation, cotton yarn was smuggled and exchanged for foreign currency, waiting for the opportunity to advance and retreat. It is his nature to be mercenary and insatiable. In order to make high profits, he steals the country's economic intelligence; Cutting corners, filling the bad with inferiority, stealing the original cotton of the country; Trick workers into working overtime "in line with nation-building." At the beginning of the "Five Antis" movement, he first created "three stops" to sabotage, and then engaged in false confessions in an attempt to pass the test in a confused manner. When he saw that the general trend of socialist transformation was irreversible, he rushed ahead of others to apply for public-private partnerships and seek fame and fortune. These manifestations of his show the common characteristics of the national bourgeoisie and have a strong typical significance. The work does not blindly write only about his "strength", but also portrays his emptiness. On the day of the public-private partnership of Hujiang Spinning Mill, he pretended to be energetic and enthusiastic at the meeting, but as soon as he returned home, thinking about the lost property, he couldn't help but cry with a headache and send out a desperate cry.
In addition to Xu Yide, the author also portrays several different types of capitalists, all of whom have distinct personalities and are full of flesh and blood. For example, Zhu Yannian, Ma Muhan, Feng Yongxiang, Pan Xincheng's father and son, and Jiang Juxia not only wrote about their respective economic strength and political attitudes, but also wrote about the changes in their destinies, thus reflecting the progress of the times.
In the works, the depiction of the image of the worker is generalized, except for Yu Jing and Tang Aying, the personality of the characters is relatively inferior.
The works have obvious artistic characteristics. Structurally, it is not easy to write a political movement of a short period of time into a huge production, and to write a fascinating storyline and portray a variety of different characters. With its magnificent structure, rich capacity, and numerous characters, the work more comprehensively reflects the socialist transformation of the party into urban capitalist industry and commerce. In depicting the image of the national capitalist, the work is also unique. Not only good at grasping the character characteristics of the characters, but also portraying the complexity of the characters in the changes of the environment; And he is good at portraying the characters through the depiction of family life, social interaction, clothing and other aspects. The psychological depiction of the work is also very vivid.
The capitalists smile in front of the workers' cadres, but their hearts are full of hatred and fear; Capitalists are intimate with each other on the surface, but secretly they are jealous of each other. The author goes deep into the inner world of the characters to make a deep description, which effectively highlights the personality of the characters.
The shortcomings of the work are mainly in terms of language. In some places, large sections of narrative explanations are made, and the language is lengthy and similar, which not only makes some chapters seem dull and boring, but also makes the plot of the whole work less compact.