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Introduction of National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts

    The National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts was established in 1955. It changed into the present name and recruited the first undergraduates in 1978. Until the end of 2007, there were 2486 students in this university, among which 2037 were undergraduates. 400 teachers and professors are in register, and 228 of them devote into the undergraduate education.  At present, there are 10 educational departments, 3 master’s degree points, 10 bachelor’s majors and 23 diversified majors. The major of Theater and Opera has been pointed as a key discipline area of Beijing.   The university has been working on the cultivation of senior theatre talents, and continued to optimize the structure of education. In order to adjust the social needs, the university has added several majors, such as Art Design, Recording, Animation and Musicology. In 2006, the master’s degree points on Art and Musicology were established. After 30 years’ construction, a comprehensive educational system has come into been.   The university spares no effort to improve the structure of the teaching system and promote the teachers’ abilities, maximize the abilities of famous professors, and recruited prestigious scholars as visiting professor. In recent years, the university has absorbed numerous teachers and professors; hence, the teaching system is quite suitable to the need of the construction.   Moreover, the master’s education now has a considerable scale due to recent development. The master’s degree education has added two more master programs to the existing Theater and Opera, which is musicology and art. In the concern of the central government, the university has undertaken four times of “Chinese youth actors of Peking Opera” since 1996, which gathered most excellent young actors and actresses in China, and pioneered a new way for senior opera performance.   The university has cultivated more than 6000 proficient opera talents in over 50 years, who are now actively dedicate to this field as playwrights, performers, directors, musicians etc. They played as nucleus in their careers, and become the backbones of the present theater and opera.   The National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts pays much attention to the mutual communication between nations. In the past ten years, it has respectively established favorable cooperation relations with famous universities in the USA, Canada, Great Britain, German, Russia, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Meanwhile, more than 300 students abroad have come to the university with further study on Chinese language, culture, and Chinese opera. Furthermore, large amounts of teachers and students in the university have went overseas on invitation for communication on performance and teaching. The university is becoming an essential channel for Chinese opera to be recognized by the world.

 

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