Editing Jiang Qing (section)

==== Film bureaucracy ====
[[File:1967-11 1967年 午门前批评 清宫秘史.jpg|thumb|A demonstration against ''[[Sorrows of the Forbidden City]]'' at the [[Meridian Gate]] of the [[Forbidden City]] in 1967]]
She served as the deputy director of the [[Film censorship in China|Film Guidance Committee]], overseeing the evaluation of film projects from 1949 to 1951.{{Sfn|Li|2023|p=226|pp=}} In 1951, Jiang Qing was given a minor position of Film Bureau Chief. After her appointment, Jiang engaged in three attempts in establishing the standard for socialist art. Jiang's first attempt was her advice to ban the 1950 [[Hong Kong movie]] ''[[Sorrows of the Forbidden City]]'', of which Jiang believed to be unpatriotic. Her opinion was not taken seriously by the communist leadership due to the minor political influence of her office and the movie was distributed in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Mao intervened to support her.<ref name=":12">{{Cite thesis |last=Ludden |first=Yawen |title=China's Musical Revolution: From Beijing Opera to Yangbanxi |date=2013-01-23 |access-date=6 May 2023 |degree=PhD |publisher=[[University of Kentucky]] |url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=aa67e5d8700121f1733de6c83434ffd4d28a6816 |place=Lexington, KY |pages=114–202 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230506200649/https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=aa67e5d8700121f1733de6c83434ffd4d28a6816 |archive-date=6 May 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Later that year, Jiang critiqued and objected to the distribution of the movie ''[[The Life of Wu Xun]]'' for glorifying the wealthy landed class while dismissing the peasantry. Again, Jiang's opinion was dismissed. Mao had to intervene to support her again.<ref name=":12" />

Jiang's third attempt involved the role of literary criticism in the development of socialist art. She asked the editor of ''[[People's Daily]]'' to republish the new literary interpretation of the classic novel ''[[Dream of the Red Chamber|Dream of Red Mansions]]'' by two young scholars at Shandong University. The editor refused Jiang's request on the grounds that the party newspaper was not a forum for free debate. Again, Mao spoke up on Jiang's behalf.<ref name=":12" />

Jiang was a member of the Ministry of Culture's steering committee for film production.<ref name=":022">{{Cite book |last=Li |first=Xiaobing |title=The Cold War in East Asia |date=2018 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-138-65179-1 |location=Abingdon, Oxon}}</ref>{{Rp|page=155}}