MaLan, female, National First-class Actress. Renowned Huangmei Operaperforming artist. She is also the only person who has won thehighest national awards for both stage performance and TV dramaperformance so far. In 2007, she received the Asian Artist LifetimeAchievement Award from the New York City Department of Culture, TheLincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American ChineseAssociation.

Sheis a deputy to the sixth, seventh and eighth National People’sCongress and was honored as the National Advanced Worker. Her mainworks include the film Dragon Lady, TV series Yan Fengying,Romance of the West Chamber, stage plays Much Ado AboutNothing, Apricot Flower Village, Dust Painter,Dream of Red Mansions, Swing, Liang Shanbo and ZhuYingtai and so on. Her acting style is elegant and full ofvitality, in character shaping, inner painting, stage rhythm andsinging thickness, widely acclaimed by the academics as one of thefew performing artists who combine Oriental art tradition and modernspirit best.

Shehas performed in many countries in America, Europe and Asia, and wasawarded the tittle of Honorary Citizen by Los Angeles. She has taughtChinese traditional opera performances at Columbia University andCity University of Hong Kong. Now she is an adjunct professor inSchool of Arts of Shanghai University and Zhejiang CommunicationUniversity.