Date of Birth: 12.3.1925 sex: male
Place of Birth: Beijing, China
Nationality: P. R. China
Current Positions:
Professor (Emeritus) at Beijing Film Academy
President of Zhou's Experimental Film School
Concurrent Professor at
Beijing Radio and TV Institute
North China Radio and TV Production College in Taiyuan
Yunnan College of Arts
Honorary Professor at
Jilin College of Arts
Degree: B.A. English Literature, Shandong University (1946-1950)
Languages: Mandarin, English, Cantonese, Russian, Polish, and German (able to give lectures in the first three languages)
Contact Address:
18600 Colima Road Rowland Heights CA 91748 USA
Contact Number: ( 1 ) 626-964-6580 (Tel. + Fax)
Teaching Appointments
1986- Professor at
Beijing Film Academy
Literature Dept. and Film Theory & Research Centre
1995 Visiting Professor at
Arts Dept, Beijing Normal University
1994 Visiting Professor at
Television Dept., Shanghai University,
Shanghai Oriental Culture Academy
1993- Concurrent Professor at
Beijing Radio and TV Institute
North China TV and Radio Production College in Taiyuan
1988 - Professor (Honorary) at
Jilin College of Arts
Shanghai Drama Institute
1986- Head of Film and Television Programme
1988 Mass Communication Dept., Shenzhen University
1985 - Visiting Professor at
1992 North China TV and Radio Production College in Taiyuan
1982 - Visiting Professor at
1992 Beijing Broadcasting Institute Journalism Dept. and TV Dept.
1981- Instructor
1986 Beijing Film Academy Literature Dept.
Courses Taught and Devised for BA/BFA and MA/MFA Programmes at Beijing Film Academy Audio-Visual Language, Sound Design, Film Studies, Hollywood Film Industry and Filmmaking, World Film History, etc.
Professional Activities
Aug. 1995 --Produced a 60-minute programme on "How to
Appreciate a Film" and "the Nature of Cinema" for Kunming Cable TV Station
July 1995-- Founded Zhou's Experimental Film School, Beijing, China
June 1995--Hosted a six-series talk on "the Nature of Cinema" for
CCTV on the centennial of cinema
May 1995--Produced a 30-minute programme on "Science and
Technology and Film Art" for CCTV on the centennial of cinema
Member of Society of Film Music, Executive Committee Society of Film Sound Recording Society of Film Editor, Executive Committee Society of Film Critics SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers), Chinese Association
Jury Member of 1994 North-East China Regional TV Drama Award 1993 Hawaii International Film Festival; China National Radio Drama Award 1990 SMPTE, Chinese Association Sound Recording Award 1988 SMPTE, Chinese Association Sound Recording Award 1986 International Tourist Film Festival in Wuxi; China National TV Commercial Award 1985 China National Radio Drama Award 1983 China National TV Drama "Feitian" Award
As Overseas Visiting Professor at
2001 UCLA Critical Studies Program in the Depart of Film and
Television Dept. in Spring Semester. "Chinese Cinema Since 1949"
1995 San Francisco State University, Cinema Dept.
lecturing on "Chinese Cinema Till Now: A Comparative Study"
(one unit)
1994 University of Hawaii, Summer Session, (lectures for 3 weeks,
3 units credit, 45 hr.)
Kamehameha Secondary School, Hawaii
lecturing on "Audio-Visual Language" and "Chinese Cinema"
1993 University of Hawaii, China Study Center
lecturing on "Comparison of the Different Styles of National
Film Languages"
1986 Munich Film and Television School, Germany
lecturing on "Hollywood Influence on Chinese Filmmaking"
1984 UCLA and CSU at Northridge
lecturing on "Hollywood Influence on Chinese Filmmaking"
Have Been Invited to Give Shortcourses and In-Job Training Courses since 1978 for over 200 Universities and Institutions and over 56,000 audience,
including: Central Drama Institute, Shanghai Drama Institute, Central Conservatory, China Conservatory, Central Fine Arts Institute, Beijing Industrial Art Institute, Zhejiang Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, College of Arts of the PLA, Tientsin College of Arts, Kunming College of Arts, Zhejiang Film Technical School, Zhejiang High School of Radio and Television, Lanzhou Film Training School
Beijing Film Studio, Shanghai Film Studio, Changchun Film Studio, Xi'an Film Studio, Shanghai Animation Film Studio, The PLA Film Studio, Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio, Children Film Studio, Sichuan Emei Film Studio, Pearl Film Studio, Popular Science Film Studio in Beijing, Guangxi Film Studio, Zhejiang Film Studio, Fujian Film Studio, Tientsin Film Studio, Liaoning Film Studio, Hubei Film Studio, Anhui Film Studio, Henan Film Studio
Central China Television Station (CCTV), Beijing TV Station, Tientsin TV Station, Dagang Oil TV Station, Bohai Oil TV Station, Shanghai TV Station, Sichuan TV Station, Chungking TV Station, Yunnan TV Station, Kunming Cable TV Station, Guangxi TV Station, Jilin TV Station, Heilongjiang TV Station, Harbin TV Station, Liaoning TV Station, Dandong TV Station, Benxi TV Station, Dalian TV Station, Lueshun TV Station, Shanxi TV Station, Taiyuan TV Station, Hainan TV Station
Arts Dept. of Beijing Normal University, Literature Dept. of Tientsin Normal University, Literature Dept. of Hebei Normal University, Xuzhou Normal College, Normal College of Shangxi University, Literature Dept. of the East-China Normal University, Communication Dept. of the South-West Normal University, Communication Dept. of the North-West Normal University, Literature Dept. of Fujian Normal University, Journalism Dept. of Amoi University, Beijing University (General Education), Qinhua University (General Education), Beijing Politechnical University(General Education), Beijing Civil Engineering College (General education), Foreign Lanugage College in Beijing, Beijing Public Library, Fudan University in Shanghai (Communication course), University of Transportation in Shanghai (Postgraduate), Zhejiang University (Communication Course), Literature Dept. of Hangzhou University, Literature Dept. of Guizhou University, Continuous Education College of the West China Medical University, Shanxi University(General Education) , Shanxi Politechnical University(General Education)
Bibliography
China Encyclopedia - Film - Sound
(China Encyclopedia Publishing House, June 1996)
Audio-Visual Language
(textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School, 1996)
My View on University Film: Film and Television Programmes in
General Universities
(Textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School, 1995)
Audio and Visual Language - A Psychological Study
( Textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School, 1995)
Film Studies: Beijing Film Academy Textbook Series
(China Worker's Publishing House, Beijing. 1994)
First print, 1994, 6000 copies
The Business of Mainstream Commercial Filmmaking
(Textbook for Beijing Film Academy Night School and
Zhou's Experimental Film School, 1993)
Sound in Film/TV/Radio
(China Film Publishing House, Beijing. 1991)
First print, July 1991, 1000 copies
Second print, December 1991, 1001-7000 copies
Third print, 1996, 7000-17000 copies
English-Chinese Film and Television Production Glossary
(China Film Publishing House, 1989)
Film Sound - 1984 (China Film Publishing House, 1984)
Film Sound - 1982 (China Film Publishing House, 1982)
Sound in Film Art (1981 Yearbook of Film)
Dictionary of 6,000 Great Films and their credits (forthcoming)
Journals and Other Publications
Contributor to Film Art, Contemporary Cinema, Cinemaya, World Cinema, Film Culture, Journal of Beijing Film Academy, Journal of Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Studies of Literature and Arts, etc.
Major Published Articles Include Close-Up in Sound Film's Audio-Visual Language (Film Art, 1996, No. 6) Film is not a Comprehensive Mixed Art Form: not Literature, not Theater, not Music, and not Painting (Film Art, 1994, No. 12,) Film Appreciation Series, (Film and TV Culture, 1989, No. 2 & 1990, No. 3) The Development and Tendencies in the Study of Sound in Film Theory Worldwide, (Journal of BFA, 1987, No. 2) On University Film: Film Programmes in General Universities (Contemporary Cinema, 1984, No. 3) Sound in the Filmic Temporalspatial Structure (Journal of BFA, 1984) also selected in Anthology of Chinese Film Theory 1920-1089 (Literature and Art Publishing House, 1992) The Formation and Evolution of Sound Film (Journal of BFA, 1984, No. 2,) Close-up Vs. Long Shot (Film Art, 1983, No. 5) The New Spatial Concept in Wide Screen ( Film Culture, 1983, No. 4) Filmic Rhythm (Contemporary Cinema, 1983, No. 4) Sound of Cinema (Film Art, 1983, No. 10; Film Aesthetics, 1982) On Film Editing, (Film Art, 1982, No. 1) A Neglected Element in Film Art - Sound (Film Art, 1981, No. 3) On Sound--written in the centenary plus one ( Film Art, 1997, No.2)
English Translation Publications Books The Film: A psychological Study, by H. Munsterberg, Chapter 4 & 5, (Contemporary Cinema, 1992, No. 3) A Theory of Film Practice by Noel Burch, (China Film Publishing House, 1992,) textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School Old Hollywood/New Hollywood by T. Schatz, (China Radio and Television Publishing House, 1992) How to Read a Film by J. Monaco, (World Cinema, 1986, No. 1 - 12) Surface of Reality by M. Roemer, (Textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School, 1989 ) Film: Form and Function by G. Wead/G. Lellis, (Beijing Film Academy, 1988) Screenplay - The Foundations of Screenwriting by S. Fields, (Wenlian Publishing Co., 1985) First Principles of Documentary by J. Grierson, (Textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School, 1984) Film Art: An Introduction, by D. Bordwell (Changchun Film Studio Literature Dept., 1984) Screen and Writer - On Film and TV Writing by W. Rila, (Changchun Film Studio Literature Dept., 1984); also published in Film Literature, 1984, No. 11, 1985 No. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. Screenplay as Literature by D.G. Winson, (Beijing Film Academy, 1983) Work of The Film Director by A.J. Reybakdsin, (Beijing Film Academy, 1979) Articles Toward a True Cinema, by S. Vorkapich, (textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School, 1994) Surface of Reality by M. Roemer, (textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School , 1989) Space by G. Wead and G. Lellis, (Contemporary Cinema, 1987, No. 2) Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema by L. Mulvey, (Beijing Film Academy, 1986; Contemporary Cinema, 1992, No. 5) Style and Medium in the Motion Picture by E. Panofsky, (Beijing Film Academy, 1986) Movement by G. Wead and G. Lellis, (Contemporary Cinema, 1986, No. 5) Time by L. Goldstein and J. Kaufmann, (Contemporary Cinema, 1984, No. 2) Filmmaker's Education UNESCO, (Beijing Film Academy Library, 1983) A Critical History of Early Film Theory by V. Perkins, (Beijing Film Academy, 1982,) also textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School The Spectator-in-the-text: the Rhetoric of Stagecoach from The Rhetoric of Filmic Narration, by Nick Browne (Film Culture, 1982, No. 1) The Long Take; Towards a Non-Bourgeois Camera Style; Two Types of Film Theory, from A Critique of Film Theory, by B. Handerson, (Film Culture, No. 2, 1980)
Screenplays
Chinatown published by Film Creation - Journal of Beijing Film Studio, 1985, No. 1-12; textbook for Zhou's Experimental Film School Citizen Kane (Beijing Film Academy Library, 1982; China Film Publishing House, 1982) Streetcar Named Desire (Yiling - The Forest of Translation magazine, 1980) Brief Encounter ( Beijing Film Academy Library, 1980) Marty by Paddy Chayefsky, TV play, published in Television Art, 1986, No. 4
Russian Translation Publications Books Film Dramaturgy by A. V. Macheret, (China Film Publishing House, 1963) The Greatest Art to the Children by L. K. Kozlev, (China Film Publishing House, 1961) Potemkin Anthology, ed. & translated. (China Film Publishing House, 1958) Anthology of Soviet Film Music, ed. & translated. (China Film Publishing House, 1957)
Screenplay Song of the Lovers dir. M. Konchalovski, (Beijing Film Academy, and China Film Publishing House, 1979) Battleship Potemkin (Subtitling)
Polish Translation Publication
Feature Film of 1959, by J. Toeplitz, published on Journal of Translations of World Cinema, 1962, No. 4 Video Production: As Scriptwriter (Textbook Author), Director, Editor, and Presenter (Lecturer)
Audio-Visual Language (Zhou's Experimental Film School, 1995,) 50 hr. course instruction TV Commercial (Jia Heng Film Production Co., 1994,) 2 hr. course instruction Audio-Visual Language (National Educational Committee, Central Audio-Visual Education Institute, 1993) 4 hr. course instruction Film as an Art (Xuzhou Normal College Publishing House, 1984,) 16 hr. course instruction for college students
Media Consultancy and Appearances
As Consultant to Yongda Media in Guiyang Hengjia Production Co. in Beijing
Television Interviews On BBC Channel 4, CBS News, Bavaria TV Station, Hawaii Public Television KMEB Channel 10, (together with Zhang Yi-mou during the Hawaii International Film Festival, 1995,) Canadian TV, etc., about Chinese cinema and the current situation of Chinese filmmaking; On Hong Kong Chinese Satellite Phoenix TV Station about Zhou's Experimental Film School; Three times on CCTV about the International Tourists Film Festival in Wuxi, the TV musical seminar, and TV documentary films; Seven times on Beijing TV Station about TV commercials; the discussion of the present situation of Chinese filmmaking; film music; science, technology and film art; the importation of Hollywood films; Zhou's experimental film school, and film education.
Radio Interviews On Beijing Radio Station, "Good Morning, Beijing" programme, about film music Twice on Tsingtao Radio Station about film sound Canadian Broadcasting Co. Radio Broadcasting interview on Chinese contemporary cinema. Associated Press of USA, Interview on Chinese current filmmaking.
Other Professional Appointments
1976-1981 Researcher Beijing Film Academy Library 1958-1976 Researcher Foreign Film Studies Dept. Chinese Cineaste Association 1954-1958 Translator and editor at Film Art Translations, Film Bureau, Ministry of Culture 1954 Chief interpreter International Dept., Shandong Seamen's Union 1951-1953 Clerical worker Secretariat of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference 1950-1951 Dept. of Public Relations, Tsingtao Municipal Government