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The Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera was established on January 28, 1950. It was originally under the Ministry of Culture. It was originally called the Opera Experimental School of the Ministry of Culture. It was officially named the Chinese Opera School in January 1955. In November 1973, it was merged into the "Central May 7th Art University" of the Ministry of Culture, and later renamed "The Central May 7th Art University". In February 1977, the establishment of the Chinese Opera School was formally restored. In October 1978, it was approved by the State Council to be upgraded to the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Opera and recruited the first undergraduate students. Since then, a new chapter in Chinese opera art education has been opened. In 2000, it was transferred to Beijing, and the State implemented a system for the college to be jointly established by the Ministry of Culture and the Beijing Municipal Government, with Beijing administration as the mainstay.
The first principal of the academy was Mr. Tian Han, one of the founders of modern Chinese drama. Wang Yaoqing, Yan Yong, Xiao Changhua, Shi Ruoxu, Wang Rongzeng, Yu Lin, Zhu Wenxiang, Zhou Yude, Du Changsheng, etc. successively served as school (academic) deans. The school motto of the college is "Shuangxin of virtue and art, keep on the past and open the future." The college currently has Peking Opera Department, Performance Department, Directing Department, Music Department, Opera Literature Department, Stage Art Department, New Media Art Department, International Cultural Exchange Department, Ideological and Political Theory Teaching Department, Sports Department, Continuing Education Department, and Secondary School There are 12 teaching units, including 3 first-level master programs of "Drama and Film Studies", "Music and Dance Studies" and "Art Theory", and 14 undergraduate majors and 27 professional directions. Drama and opera is a key discipline in Beijing, and it is included in the construction project of Beijing's cultural and artistic talent training base. The Peking Opera Performing major is a traditional superior major of the college, and it is also a special major at the national and Beijing levels.
The college takes subject construction as the leader, pays attention to the adjustment of teacher structure, and continuously improves the quality of teachers. In recent years, the college has adhered to the principle of “introduction, cultivation, and improvement”, and successively introduced special professors such as Fu Jin, Xie Boliang, Zhang Huoding, and academic leaders and other high-level talents. At the same time, it has hired well-known experts, scholars and artists at home and abroad to teach in the college. It has formed a faculty with distinguished professors and famous artists as academic and creative leaders, combining old and new, combining inside and outside the college, and combining on-the-job and guest. As of April 2018, among the 272 full-time teachers, the proportion of teachers with senior titles has reached 48%, and the proportion of teachers with a master's degree or above has reached 74%. The educational background, title, age and academic structure of the faculty are increasingly optimized.
The promotion of teaching construction through artistic practice, creation, and scientific research is the fine tradition of the college running a school, and it is also a characteristic of the college’s talent training. The college currently has 2 national characteristic specialty construction sites, 2 national excellent teaching achievement awards, 8 national quality engineering construction projects, 11 Beijing excellent teaching achievement awards, 1 key discipline in Beijing, with 4 people With experience as a doctoral tutor, there are 10 special talents such as Beijing "Great Wall Scholars", "Beijing-level Candidates for the New Century Talent Project", and "Four Batches" of the Beijing Propaganda and Culture System, and specializes in Beijing-level specialty There are 4, 4 outstanding teaching teams in Beijing, 8 famous teaching teachers in Beijing, and more than 30 construction projects for Beijing-level talent training. Since 2006, the college has obtained more than 100 scientific research projects, including 55 scientific research projects at or above the provincial and ministerial level, six national-level projects, one national major project, and more than 187 academic works and textbooks have been published. Among them, "Chinese Art Education Department: Opera Volume" fills the gap of long-term unsystematic teaching materials for opera education. In 2013, the college was approved as "Beijing Opera Culture Inheritance and Development Research Base", and in 2016 it was approved as "Beijing Philosophy and Social Management Secondary Unit". "The Legend of the White Snake", "The Flower Spear", "Yue Yun", "Du Shi Niang", "Zhang Xie Zhuang Yuan", "Les Miserable World", "Red Detachment of Women", "The Resurrection of the Threefolds", "Long March Group" created and adapted by the college A large number of outstanding works such as "Song" and "Meilan Dress" have won the National Stage Art Excellence Project Nomination Award, the National Outstanding Drama Award, the International Theatre Association (ITI) Musical Drama Award and other awards.
The college has formed a four-in-one talent training model of "teaching, practice, scientific research, and creation". For more than 60 years, the college has trained more than 10,000 talents in opera for the country. Liu Xiurong, Xie Ruiqing, Yang Qiuling, Qian Haoliang, Zhang Chunxiao, Hou Zhengren, Li Guang, Sun Yue, Zhu Bingqian, Liu Changyu, Ye Shaolan, Li Changchun, Feng Zhixiao, Guan Ya have emerged Nong, Wang Mengyun, Li Chaogui, Li Weikang, Geng Qichang, Liu Qi, Shen Jianjin, Zhang Manling, Huang Xiaoci, Yu Kuizhi, Li Shengsu, Meng Guanglu, Yuan Huiqin, Wang Rongrong, Zhou Long, Zhang Huoding, Guo Yuejin, Du Zhenjie, Li Hongtu, Li Jun and many other artists. Since 1996, the college has successively hosted six "Graduate Classes for Outstanding Young Performers of Chinese Peking Opera", which has made special contributions to the training of talents in the performing arts of Peking Opera in the 21st century. The Chinese Academy of Opera is known as "the cradle of Chinese opera talents".
Academy has always undertaken the important mission of spreading Chinese opera culture overseas, and has established good cooperative relations with dozens of universities around the world. In November 2009, the college and Binghamton University jointly established the world's first Confucius Institute for Traditional Chinese Opera. It has trained more than a thousand international students and participated in various international art festival performances, which has had a wide range of influences at home and abroad.
As of April 2018, the college has 2572 students, including 2064 full-time undergraduates, 288 postgraduates, and 220 continuing education students. The average employment rate of graduates in the last three years is 95.26%.
The college covers a total area of 54,300 square meters and a total construction area of 96,000 square meters. There are large and small theaters, film and television production centers, recording studios, gymnasiums and other teaching practice places. As of the end of 2017, the college library has a total construction area of 5723 square meters, containing 286,553 paper books and 190.64GB of e-books. At the same time, the college has built a stable, safe and efficient campus network for the updating and informatization of teaching methods. Teaching provides a strong guarantee.
Facing the future, the college will further emancipate the mind, reform and innovate, and forge ahead, implement the "two-step" development strategy determined by the second party congress of the college, and steadily promote the "National Opera Advanced Talent Training Center, Opera Theory Research Center, and Opera Culture The construction of the "Information Exchange and Dissemination Center" strives to build a university of opera arts with distinctive national characteristics, first-class domestic standards, and extensive international influence.