Abstract:  Li Shuangshuang, the selfless, beautiful and candid heroine of the film Li Shuangshuang, became a representative of new characters produced during the initial socialist period of China. In the film, Li Shuangshuang’s political consciousness is spontaneously integrated into farmers’ daily life and works in coordination with folk justice and common senses. Thus, in generating such a new character, traditional moral ethics, emotional structures and life experience in rural areas all play an important part. Under the pen of the screenwriter Li Zhun, Li Shuangshuang is depicted as courageous to fight and “generous to forgive”, an ideal type with new socialist subjectivity. Xiwang, on the other hand, represents an image of most farmers in the agricultural cooperative movements. Through the storyline of “getting married first and then falling in love”, Xiwang gradually turns to be a subject more in line with the requirements of the agricultural cooperative movement. In the marriage with Xiwang, Shuangshuang is depicted as a more equal partner compared with a traditional wife image. In the generation of the new characters with socialist subjectivity, certain tensions between the screenwriter, director, and performers arise, so do dialogues and conflicts between Shanghai and Yan’an film style.

Key words:  , Li Shuangshuang, new characters with socialist subjectivity, agricultural cooperative movement, Li Zhun, Lu Ren