“识字的政治”——略论建国初期的识字运动与社会主义新文化的建构

“The Politics of Literacy” ——A Brief Discussion of the Literacy Movement Immediately after the Founding of the PRC and the Construction of Socialist New Culture

建国初期的识字运动是新中国文化建设的重要组成部分。在一个崭新的社会语境里,实现了政治翻身的工农群众通过识字教育,从沉默无声,走上了阅读、写作与语言表达的前台,这不仅使他们更自觉地参与到新的政治生活中去,也唤醒了一个阶级群体从未有过的生活尊严和社会意识。

The Literacy Movement immediately after the founding of the PRC is an important part of new China’s Cultural Construction. In a bran -new social context, the movement rendered the masses of politically liberated workers and peasants, who had been silent before, learnt to read, write and express in language. This not only enabled them to participate in the new political life more self coconsciously, but also brought the class a dignity of life and social consciousness they had never possessed before.