Reconstructing the Monkey King in Jingju: Political Standardization, Ideological Rewriting, and the Transformation of Cultural Ecosystem in Xiqu Reform (1948–1956)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis investigates the ideological reconstruction and standardization of the Monkey King’s stage image during the Xiqu reform (1948–1956) in the People’s Republic of China. Focusing on historical and textual analysis, ideological criticism, online archival research in mainstream media and newspapers, and contemporaneous cultural commentaries, as well as close readings of specific Jingju performance practices, the study explores how the Monkey King was transformed from a diverse stage figure into a politically standardized cultural symbol. And it also examines how institutional mechanisms and discursive power reshaped theatrical traditions and marginalized alternative styles. Ultimately, this paper argues that the Xiqu reform not only regulated artistic subjectivity but also engineered a new state-driven cultural ecosystem. The revolutionary reinterpretation of the Monkey King was not only a product of this reform but also profoundly shaped representations of the character across other media and art in contemporary China.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".