WanChuanfa, male, professor, deputy director of the Film CultureResearch Center of Shanghai Theatre Academy, deputy secretary-generalof Shanghai Drama College, president of Shanghai Film CommentAssociation, deputy secretary-general of the Network Literature andArt Committee of the Chinese Literary Critics Association, directorof China Film Critics Association, director of the Theory ReviewCommittee of China Film Association, director of the Plays Committeeof the Chinese Film Theory Literature Association, visiting scholarof the UCSC( The University of California, Santa Cruz).

Mainproductions: drama Bury (play writer), drama I am not PanJinlian (play writer), film The Banquet (play writer),film Route 318, film The Cicada in Winter (planning),documentary Silence and taboo (art direction), animationseries The Little Monk with A Bag (writer), feature filmShanghai in Movie (director) etc.

Publishedmonograph: Industry and Aesthetics of Contemporary Chinese Cinema:1978-2008; published novel: Black Coil; Translation: AkiraKurosawa’s Film; Co-editor: Women after Silent Films,The Gendered Writing and Methodology of History, etc.

Hehas published nearly 60 papers in core journals, many of which havebeen reprinted in full by Xinhua Digest, Social ScienceDigest, Film and Television Art of Photocopying Materials ofNPC and many of them have won awards.