Yu Jiancun, male, professor, doctor. He is the editor in charge of foreign drama in Drama Art of Shanghai Opera, the deputy editor of the Chinese version of Drama Review and Human Performance (TDR) in New York, and the Chinese deputy editor of the French Convection journal. Engaged in European and American drama teaching and research. He has served as a teacher and instructor for the annual Shakespeare Festival of Shanghai University for a long time. From 2002 to 2016, he has completed eight annual dramas of Shakespeare and non-Shakespeare in English, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Anything Makes Nothing. In 2016If I Didn't Know You won the first Huizhuang Youth Shanghai University Student Cultural and Creative Excellent Works Award (non-art major). He has published more than 50 papers and translations in Chinese and English at home and abroad, such as Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China, The Rise of Performance Studies: Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum (UK), Social Performance and the Destiny of Characters-Auliannaas an example, State Power and Social Performance-Shakespeare's King Lear from the Perspective of Social Performance, The Legion of Black Guards-A Work to Dissolve Heroes and Hero Worship, etc. He has an academic interest in cross-cultural drama and Shakespeare, and has published monographsand translations, such as Richard Schackner Studies in Cross-Cultural Perspectives-Taking India and China as Examples, Classical New Theory: The 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare's Death (Associate Editor), The Qing Palace Opera Paintings (Main Translation), etc. He participated in the compilation of many dictionaries, such as The Great Dictionary of Aesthetics, and the research work of two national social science projects, such as The Dissemination and Acceptance of Chinese Opera in the United States. His current social positions include a member of the Shanghai Dramatists Association, a director of the Drama Branch of the National American Literature Research Association, and a director of the Chinese Drama Theory and History Research Association.