Recently, the Ministry of Education announced the winners of the Ninth Outstanding Achievement Award in Scientific Research in Higher Education (Humanities and Social Sciences). Out of 1,496 awarded research projects nationwide, including those from Hong Kong and Macau, Professor Li Zhenlin from the Shanghai Theatre Academy received a first prize in the monograph and paper category for his work "40 Years of Reform and Opening: The Gradual Approach of Chinese Film Performance School".
Statistics show that nine first prizes in the monograph and paper category for arts were awarded in this session of the Outstanding Achievement Award in Scientific Research in Higher Education (Humanities and Social Sciences).
The Outstanding Achievement Award in Scientific Research in Higher Education (Humanities and Social Sciences) is established by the Ministry of Education to comprehensively implement Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply enforce General Secretary Xi Jinping's important discourses on education and the work of philosophy and social sciences, and to accelerate the construction of a philosophy and social sciences system with Chinese characteristics in universities. It also aims to recognize the outstanding achievements of researchers in the field of philosophy and social sciences in higher education. This award represents the highest honor currently available in the field of philosophy and social sciences research in China.
Author Profile:
Li Zhenlin
Dean of the College of Film
Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee
Second-level Professor
Shanghai Theatre Academy
Achievement Overview:
"40 Years of Reform and Opening: The Gradual Approach of Chinese Film Performance School" explores the development and transformation of film performance aesthetics over the 40 years of reform and opening up, expanding to the historical context of Chinese film performance. It defines fundamental academic terms and concepts and thoroughly examines the historical process and characteristics of film performance aesthetics during this period. The work "deciphers" and constructs the profound social motivations and cultural aesthetic principles inherent in this progression and advocates for the establishment of a theoretical system for the Chinese film performance school. It delves deeply into the "trends" and "spirit" of performance aesthetics within historical frameworks, initially establishing a theoretical system for the Chinese film performance school, and strives to be a practitioner and exemplar in "constructing Chinese discourse and narrative systems".