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So many one-act plays have been created in the 1950s that it may be fairly defined that the period is the golden age of Chinese one-act plays. In the early 1950s, it was considered proper that a play should be a mirror of the revolutionary struggles happening in those days and describe positive, progressive and heroic characters based on the doctrine that arts should serve politics. On the other hand, artistic crafts and abundant creative experiences were dismissed as unimportant. In the strained relation between politics and arts, the Fourth Plays which emerged in the mid-1950s for the first time tried to portray human aspects rather than political ideologies. Sharing Joys and Pains is one of the most representative Fourth Plays in that it portrayed personality traits of people of all levels of society in the background of the Rural Cooperation Movement showing the distinctive features of the Fourth Plays which promoted a change in the literary circles of 1950s.
