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Academy of Arts of China

Address: No.17 West Qianhai Street, Western District, Beijing

Post Code: 100009

Tel: (86-10) 66181554 Fax: (86-10) 66181855

Academy of Arts of China
The predecessor of the Academy of Arts of China (AAC) was the Local Opera Research Institute founded in 1951 and turn into Music Research Institute and Art Research Institute shortly after. Its present name was given in 1980. It is under the Ministry of Culture.

Duties and Tasks: Research local operas, plays, music, dances, art, film and TV, photography,quyi(folk art including ballad singing, storytelling, comic dialogues, clapper talks, cross talks, etc.), acrobatics, puppet plays, shadow plays, art of architecture and Marxist artistic theory as well as
history, present situation and development trend of Chinese Culture and art; do comparative research of Chinese and foreign Culture; and train theoretic research personnel in its postgraduate department.

Establishment: Under AAC there is Local Opera Research Institute, Music Research Institute, Art Research Institute, Dancing Research Institute, Play Research Institute,QuyiResearch Institute, Research Institute of Dreams in the Red Mansion, Research Institute of Marxist Artistic Theories, Film and
TV Research Institute, Research Institute of Chinese Culture, Research Institute of Artistic Sciences and Technologies, Postgraduate Department, Data Center, a Cultural and artistic press house and comprehensive research departments. It also edits and publishes magazines includingArt Research,
Artistic Theory and Criticism, Biography Chinese Cultural Pictorial, Research of Dreams in Red Mansion, Observation of Art, Chinese Music, Chinese Culture, Chinese Photographer and Metropolis Film and TV.

Major achievements: Since its establishment, the AAC has finished nearly 80 of its 100 plus research projects, more than 30 of which are state-level ones. The finished ones includeHistory of Chinese Local Operas, General Theory of Chinese Local Operas, History of Chinese Art (12 volumes), Chinese
Musical Relics (12 volumes), Complete Works of Chinese Folk Art (14 volumes), General History of Chinese Dances, History of Chinese Stage Play, History of Chinese Architecture Art, Typology of Art, History of Chinese Temperament, Analysis of Artistic Trend in the New Time, Eastern Nuke Art, Theory
on Grasp of Art, Theory on Art and Culture, Sociology 0f Local Operas, Sociology of Music, Dictionary of Art and Science and Research of Voice Formation in Chinese Singing.It has also made achievements in overseas Cultural research. Meanwhile, it is in charge of 10 artistic annals and books that
are key state artistic and scientific project. The chief editing departments ofAnnals of Chinese Local Operas, Collection of Chinese Operas and Music, Collection of Chinese National and Folk Dances and History of Chinese Quyiare headquartered in the AAC. Of the 10 annals and books, 119 volumes
have been completed and 70 plus volumes have been published. The AAC has published altogether about 500 specialized works, more than 200 translated works and 20 plus kinds of book series.

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