1 December 2019-12
On 8 October 2019, with the successful conclusion of the seminar on Chinese Opera – Retrospect of 70 years and Prospect, the seven-day-long 2019 Chinese Opera Culture Week was successfully closed in Beijing Garden Expo Park. On 7 October, at the award ceremony of China Opera Culture Week, Zhang Hong and Huang Jingfeng (Tutor: Professor Ye Changhai), two young teachers of STA’s Department of Theatrical Literature, Wu Hanxian (Tutor: Professor Lu Jun) and Ding Ye (Tutor: Professor Lu Jun), two doctoral students of STA’s Department of Theatrical Literature, stood on the winners’ rostrum of the Top 10 Papers Award” of Call for Papers of Young Scholars Program, and Zhou Nan (Tutor: Professor Ye Changhai), a doctoral student of STA’s Department of Theatrical Literature, was selected as a winner of the “Excellent Paper Award” of Chinese Opera Culture Week.
This event, which was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China and the Beijing Municipal People's Government, and jointly organized by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Fengtai District People's Government, China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd and the Chinese Opera Research Institute of Chinese National Academy of Arts, was a paper collection and award selection event for young scholars, and was one of the highlights and an important component of the Chinese Opera Culture Week.
In total, the Organizing Committee received papers from Chinese opera research institutions, art troupes and higher education institutions of 20 provinces and autonomous regions. Through anonymous evaluation and on-site discussion by the evaluation committee composed of famous experts and scholars in the field of Chinese opera research, Top 10 Papers and 13 excellent papers were finally selected by voting. At the seminar, experts and scholars focused on such hot issues as International Sharing of Chinese Opera, “Current Situation, Characteristics and Problems of Chinese Opera Creation in the New Era, Research on Chinese Opera Schools and Development, and Research on Modern Chinese Opera Creation. Ding Ye and Wu Hanxian, the two doctoral students of STA, made speeches on behalf of the winners of the Top 10 Papers Award elaborating the viewpoints on their own papers, which received the evaluation and commendation from the experts and professors present.
The teachers and students of STA’s Department of Theatrical Literature responded actively to this call for papers of young scholars, and transformed their latest research outcomes into academic papers. The fact that these young scholars of STA were able to stand out from all participants and received the unanimously recognition of the evaluation experts and scholars was inseparable from their own dedication to studies, the careful cultivation of their tutors, and the strong academic atmosphere and rigorous research attitude of STA’s Department of Theatrical Literature.
