
Name: Wang Tao
Degree: Ph.D. in Film Studies, Chinese National Academy of Arts
Position/Title: Chair of the Department of Drama, Film and Television
Email: wlh@ncu.edu.cn
Research Direction: Research on Performance Art Creation, Film History and Theory, Drama History and Theory
Main Courses: Fundamentals of Performance, Multi-act Play Training, Graduation Creation, History of Chinese and Foreign Film, History of Chinese and Foreign Drama
Research Achievements: Member of the China Film Association, the China Association of Higher Education Screen Arts, and the China Society for Anthropology of Arts.
Review Expert for Master’s academic degree theses at the China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center, Ministry of Education; Review Expert for provincial and municipal thesis sampling inspections.
Member of the Jiangxi Provincial Steering Committee for Undergraduate Teaching in Performance at Regular Higher Education Institutions. Head of the Construction Point for the Jiangxi Provincial First-Class Undergraduate Major (Performance).
Presided over 1 project funded by the National Social Science Fund (Post-funding); participated in 3 National Social Science Fund projects and 2 National Publication Fund projects; presided over and participated in 5 provincial and ministerial-level research projects and arts fund projects. Participated in the Key Project of the National Social Science Fund — Research on Chinese Film Historiography and Database Construction (Chinese Film Historiography) and the National 12th Five-Year Plan Key Publication Project and National Publication Fund-supported project Yan’an Literature and Art Archives. Published nearly 20 papers in various journals; authored the monograph History of Early Chinese Film Performance (1905-1949).