The Shanghai Theatre Academy was founded in 1956 and has undergone several name changes since. It is a leading research institution focused on performing arts from China, including Chinese opera. Current research areas examine intercultural communication between Europe and China through performing arts and interpreting Chinese culture and creative industries using Chinese opera.

1. Shanghai
Theatre
Academy

2. History
O 1945, Shanghai Experimental Drama
School
O 1956, Shanghai Theatre Academy
O 2002, Shanghai College of Performing
Arts; Shanghai Opera School;
Shanghai Dance School.
O 2011, TDR (The Drama Review)
O -, International Theatre Festivals;
International Academic
Collaborations.

13. O Current research:
Inter-Cultural Communication between EU and China through performing arts;
Interpreting Chinese Culture and Creative Industries through Chinese opera;
O 2015, Ma, Haili. Urban Politics and Cultural Capital in China: The Case of Chinese
Opera. Surrey: Ashgate.
O 2007 to 2011, Opera Encounter: Common Voice, an EU funded EU-China inter-cultural
opera research. 300,000 pounds received.
O 2012, co-produced the Manchester Carnival, fusing Chinese opera with Brazilian
maculele;
O 2007, sang Chinese opera and fused it with musicians from Congo, Brazil, Iran,
Pakistan and Wales for the 2007 Manchester International Festival;
O 2006 - 2007, intercultural theatre collaboration: Border Crossings Theatre Company,
UK and the All-Female Shanghai Yue Opera Company, China; staged at Riverside
Studios, Hammersmith, London;
O 1992 –1997, opera performer at the Shanghai All-Female Yue Opera Company.
O 1989 – 1992, Shanghai Theatre Academy (Shanghai Opera School), China;
Diploma in classical Chinese opera;