7 September 2018
This afternoon, the Shanghai Theater Academy (STA) held the press conference on its Artistic China online course. According to information from the press conference, since its launch in August this year, Artistic China has been selected as an elective course of general studies by more than 20,000 students from 113 universities.
At present, the Artistic China online course has completed the recording and production of 14 sessions, which are taught respectively by 14 experts of the cultural and artistic fields. The duration of each session is about 40-50 minutes, and the subjects and teaching experts are as follows:
- Dance of thought of colorful China (by Lou Wei lecturing)
- Long-standing Artistic China (by Wang Bangxiong)
- The life and creation of modern writers (by Yang Yang)
- Emotion and reason in Chinese opera art (by Liu Qing)
- Thinking and doing in Chinese drama (by Tang Yipei)
- East-West connection in Chinese theatre (by Gong Baorong)
- Performing arts and social civilization (by Wang Luoyong)
- The picturesque language art (by Wang Su )
- The artistic spirit of Chinese Needlework (by Pan Jianhua)
- A big country of film versus a strong country of film (by Li Zhenlin)
- The way of expression in TV hosting (by Luo Xin)
- Etiquette and social performance (by Sun Huizhu)
- The role culture expected by audience (by Zhang Shengquan)
- New vision of China's cultural development in the new era (by Huang Changyong)
These sessions provide interpretation of art from the perspectives of performance, theatre, film and television, social performance, Chinese opera, dance, culture and so on.
In addition to the online sessions, Artistic China will also offer three offline face-to-face classes where students can communicate directly with the teacher through multimedia.
"Artistic China is only in Version 1.0 now, and we hope to further improve its system and practicality in the future", said Mr Liu Qing, Vice President of Shanghai Theater Academy. Perhaps in the not distant future, Artistic China 2.0 would be able to invite students to directly join the video recording and, by then, students watching the course would know more clearly how to speak the lines and how to host a talk or program.
Mr Huang Changyong, President of Shanghai Theater Academy, pointed out that the current Artistic China course at should be the beginning, and a series of additional units will be developed after giving a better thought to what Artistic China is about, so that it becomes a classic course that will benefit all students.
