In recent years, Dr. Xie Bailiang has published many monographs on the development history of China's drama and world drama, and has been invited to give lectures at some famous universities in Canada and the United States for many times. In view of his series of theoretical achievements in the field of culture and art, the State Council, China awarded him a certificate of young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions and a special government allowance; The American Academic Council also listed him as the key funding object of Sino-American academic research in 1999-2000.
Listening to Flower Drum Opera and Practicing the Road of Literature and Art
"I have a deep relationship with Tianmen ancient painting and drama." Professor Xie said that Tianmen is a war zone in Jianghan Plain. In addition to the extensive influence of Han Opera and Chu Opera, Tianmen Ancient Painting Opera (later called Tianmen Ancient Painting Opera or Jingzhou Ancient Painting Opera) is also very popular and has become an indispensable spiritual food for people.
1958 On September 25th, Xie Bailiang was born in Xitai Village, Banqiao Brigade, Duoxiang Town. His grandfather Xie Youben and his father Xie Zhixiang are both famous local rural intellectuals and loyal opera fans.
Xie Bailiang loved watching plays and reading books since he was a child, but he failed to go to high school for further study because of the "Cultural Revolution". Since then, Xie Bailiang has returned to his hometown to work, which has provoked a heavy burden of life.
Xie Bailiang took an active part in the activities of literary and art propaganda teams of brigades and communes during the six-year "social university" training of farming in rural areas and carrying bags at loading and unloading stations, and became the penholder of rural theatrical troupes. A series of plays and programs he created were put on the stage and won many awards in the county. He also toured around with big troupes and multi-township troupes, and directly felt the people's desire for cultural festivals. People's wishes and people's likes and dislikes provide the deepest and broadest cultural soil for Xie Bailiang's creative opportunity and the sublimation of aesthetic taste.
Later, under the guidance of teachers such as Fan in the county cultural center, he became one of the more active young creators in Tianmen County. When the national cotton work site meeting was held in Tianmen, the program creation of the large-scale opening ceremony was created by Xie Bailiang. Since then, Xie Bailiang has become a young man carefully cultivated by the County Cultural Bureau.
From loving ancient paintings and operas to creating ancient paintings and operas for the troupe, Xie Bailiang has developed a strong interest in the historical origin and artistic evolution of this local opera. Until recent years, Xie Bailiang, as a drama professor, provided some scripts and performance video materials suitable for transplanting to ancient paintings for the troupe in his hometown.
Since ancient times, one side has cultivated the other. Therefore, other operas of China Opera also have their own unique artistic charm and mass soil. At that time, in the creative classes organized by the Cultural Bureau again and again, Xie Bailiang often plunged into the county library and eagerly read China's famous plays after creation, which gradually produced a strong desire to write history for China's plays in the future.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The artistic enlightenment he received in his hometown, the artistic edification he received in his childhood and the profound accumulation of Chu cultural traditions all made Xie Bailiang keep moving forward in the field of art and culture.
After studying hard in the cold window for ten years, the history of traditional Chinese opera can only be achieved by music theory.
1In the autumn of 979, Xie Bailiang, who had been in the society for six years, was admitted to Hubei Normal University by tenacious self-study and became a freshman in the Chinese Department.
As a college student, his classical literature, drama literature and English class have always been among the best in his class. Thanks to years of creative practice, Xie Bailiang's writing style is particularly prominent in the class. His composition is usually listed as a model essay for the whole class; His essays, poems and novels were also published in newspapers and magazines, which became the focus of students' attention.
The inertia brought by long-term drama activities has prompted Xie Bailiang to pay more attention to famous dramas. He studies Chinese and foreign dramas seriously. As early as the second grade, he published a long paper "From Pipa to Shirt and Tears" in a magazine, and made a detailed analysis and in-depth evaluation of the works of Ma Zhiyuan, a great composer in Yuan Dynasty. Near graduation, he took Guan Hanqing, a great dramatist in Yuan Dynasty, as the research object of his graduation thesis.
After four years' undergraduate career, Xie Bailiang felt that his knowledge was still very poor, so he decided to apply for master's degrees in Xu Zhongyu and Qi Senhua of East China Normal University to study drama theory in the history of China literary criticism.
Shanghai is the center of the study of China's literary criticism history, but the study of interest is relatively weak. Under the guidance of his tutor, Xie Bailiang sat on the bench for several years, borrowed rare books of ancient famous dramas from Shanghai Library and Beijing Library for many times, and copied many prefaces and postscripts of operas with research value. Finally, he compiled the Preface and Postscript of China Opera with nearly one million words, and on this basis, he wrote An Introduction to the Preface and Postscript of China Opera. After some chapters of the book were published in Guangming Daily, Literary Heritage and other magazines, it opened a door worthy of attention for the study of interest.
After graduating with a master's degree, Xie Bailiang applied for a doctor's degree in the history of Chinese drama in Sun Yat-sen University, and was admitted with good professional results among many candidates. He became a descendant of Wu Mei, a master of modern music research, and a disciple of Wang Qi (Wang Jisi), a master of contemporary China opera research.
During his stay in Shanghai, Xie Bailiang focused on the study of drama theory; During his stay in Guangzhou, he focused on the history of China opera. In this way, he can have a comprehensive understanding of the theory and the development history of Chinese opera.
Under the careful guidance of the master, Xie Bailiang writes more than one drama paper every month. These articles were published in many magazines in China, such as Literary Heritage, and the author won the first prize of the liberal arts research award of the Graduate School of Sun Yat-sen University twice.
Sharpen a sword every ten years. During these years' study career, Xie Bailiang finally turned into a young scholar with rich academic accomplishment and solid literary foundation.
It was also at this time that, with the completion of the Outline of China's Tragedy History, Xie Bailiang made a great wish to write a series of drama cultural history.
Immerse yourself in scientific research and travel around the world to give lectures.
After receiving a heavy doctorate in literature, Xie Bailiang came to Shanghai Theatre Academy to teach, and was promoted to associate professor and professor successively, becoming a young scholar in the Ministry of Culture system. Later, he was awarded the title of young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions by the State Council and enjoyed special government allowance.
During the teaching of Shanghai Opera, Xie Bailiang devoted himself to scientific research, diligently wrote and published various monographs, and gradually formed his own series of studies on the history of drama culture and literature, and successively published monographs such as China Tragedy History, World Tragedy Literature History, China Drama Classification History, China Contemporary Drama Literature History and Great Dramatist Guan Hanqing.
Over the years, Xie Bailiang's academic research has been assisted and supported by North American countries, societies and academic institutions. His research has been included in two national philosophical and social science fund projects, including the Dawn Project in Shanghai, the Young Teachers Fund of Shanghai Education Commission and the key funded projects of Shanghai Publishing Bureau. One was included in the first prize of scientific research by Shanghai Theatre Academy, one was listed as a key scientific research project by Nanjing Normal University, and two were awarded excellent scientific research awards by the National Aesthetic Society, the State Press and Publication Bureau and the National Foreign Literature Society.
Besides writing books, Xie Bailiang also gives lectures in many universities and cultural institutions. He has made special reports on drama culture in universities such as Shanghai Jiaotong University and Wuhan University, and some cultural institutions such as Shanghai Yue Theatre and Ningbo Municipal Bureau of Culture.
In 2008, Xie Bailiang entered the China Theatre Academy to teach and became one of the academic leaders of literature and art related majors. As a master tutor and doctoral tutor, he said that he would lead his disciples to make new achievements for the prosperity of academic culture.
Since the 1990s, Xie Bailiang has gone abroad and visited the University of Macau, the University of Toronto, the University of Fossa, the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University, explaining China's literary and artistic traditions to some undergraduates and graduate students, and making his own efforts to promote China culture. He also collaborated with some foreign scholars to write and spread China culture to a wider audience through different languages and cultural levels.
Xie Bailiang's overseas scholarship programs include four research scholarship programs: University of Toronto, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University and American Academic Council. It is these spring rain-like subsidies and mutual encouragement that make Xie Bailiang feel the great responsibility of foreign cultural exchanges and dare not stop.
Starting from my hometown, starting from China, an ancient cultural center and a well-known national college entrance examination "Champion County", I will make unremitting efforts to promote China's traditional culture, film and television art and world drama art.
Professor Xie believes that everything he owns is due to the nourishment of Tianmen soil and water, the influence of his hometown culture, the influence of his hometown elders, the gifts from his parents and relatives, and the careful cultivation and care of Mr. Tong Meng, many elders of the Cultural Bureau system and many teachers of the three universities.
Unforgettable kindness of hometown and teachers, Professor Xie said: The best reward is to sprinkle more sweat and practice in your academic field, taking advantage of this beautiful spring.