SHANGHAI THEATRE ACADEMY Dr. Haili Ma AHRC 2015 IPS fellow STA, China

History 1945, Shanghai Experimental Drama School 1956, Shanghai Theatre Academy 2002, Shanghai College of Performing Arts Shanghai Opera School Shanghai Dance School 2011, TDR (The Drama Review) International Theatre Festivals International Academic Collaborations 2015, MOU STA - AHRC

Shanghai

1989 – 1992, Shanghai Theatre Academy (Shanghai Opera School), China; Diploma in classical Chinese opera 1992 –1997, opera performer at the Shanghai All-Female Yue Opera Company , intercultural theatre collaboration: Border Crossings Theatre Company, UK and the All-Female Shanghai Yue Opera Company, China; staged at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London Ma Haili. (2010). The Character of Song, the Possibility of Inter-Cultural Communication. In The Orientations Trilogy, Theatre and Gender: Asia and Europe, ed. Walling, Michael, Middlesex: Border Crossings. ISBN:

2007, sang Chinese opera and fused it with musicians from Congo, Brazil, Iran, Pakistan and Wales for the 2007 Manchester International Festival; 2007 – 2011, University of Leeds, UK PhD ‘Outstanding achievement’ and ‘Research Excellence’; 2012, co-produced the Manchester Carnival, fusing Chinese opera with Brazilian maculele; Ma Haili. (2013). Reinterpretation of Modern Aesthetics: A Fusion Dance of Brazilian Maculele and Chinese Opera. In Marxism and Humanism, ed. Wang, Jie and Spencer Robert Beijing: Central Publisher. ISBN: Ma Haili. (2015) Urban Politics and Cultural Capital: The Case of Chinese Opera. Surrey: Ashgate. ISBN:

2015 AHRC awarded project Interpreting Culture and Creative Economy through Chinese Opera C1 Central Qinqing and urbanization C2 Suzhou Kunqu and aesthetics C3 Northeast Errenzhuan and Franchise C4 Southeast Fujian Puppet Shows and Religion C5 Central Hunan Dongdong Qiang, Oral and Written C6 Shanghai All-Female Yueju Inter-cultural Communication