Shanghai Research Institute of Culture and History - Master’s Forum

     Lecturer: Shang Changrong (Peking Opera artist)

     Time: June 7, 2015 (Sunday) 14:00

     Place: 4F Multifunctional Hall of Shanghai Library (No. 1555 Huaihai Road (M))

Quote from the lecture:

For more than 200 years, male roles, female roles, painted roles and clowns have brought a concise and delicate beauty to the art of Peking Opera; acting, singing, speech and acrobatics as well as gestures, eye movements and gaits convey traditional Chinese opera cultures in abstract and concrete languages. What is Peking Opera? What is traditional culture? What is inheritance? What is innovation? Let’s listen to what Shang Changrong has to say …

About the lecturer:

As a Peking Opera artist, Peking Opera master Shang Xiaoyun’s third son  Shang Changrong was born in Beijing in 1940. He is the first winner of Chinese Drama Plum Award and one of the first inheritors of National Intangible Cultural Heritage. Influenced by his father, Shang Changrong began to perform at age 5, and in a stage practice for more than 60 years, has formed special styles in Hua Lian (male character in Chinese opera with a painted face) performing arts, and performed and lectured in European, American and Asian countries, not to mention China.
Shang Changrong has made great contributions to the inheritance and development of the Chinese cultures and the art of Peking Opera, and this is highly praised.
Shang Changrong was member of the 8 ^th, 9^th and 10^th CPPCC, and is honorary member of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, chairman of Chinese Theatre Association, chairman of Shanghai Theatre Association, professor of National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts, professor of Shanghai Theatre Academy, and leading actor and art director of Shanghai Peking Opera House.

In 2009, he was appointed by Shanghai Research Institute of Culture and History as a researcher.