The Ministry of Culture ( MOC ) was a ministry of the government of the People's Republic of China which was dissolved on 19 March 2018. The responsibilities of the MOC, which were assumed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism , encompassed cultural policy and activities in the country, including managing national museums and monuments; promoting and protecting the arts (including censorship of visual, folk, theatrical, musical, dance, architectural, literary, televisual and cinematographic works); and managing the national archives and regional culture centers. Its headquarters were in Chaoyang District , Beijing .
8-682: The China National Peking Opera Company (CNPOC), originally named the National Peking Opera Theater of China , is one of the national ensembles of performance arts directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China. Situated in Beijing , it was founded in January 1955, with opera performer Mei Lanfang as the first president in its history. The current president
16-629: Is Song Guanlin. As China 's premier Peking opera organization, the CNPOC comprises celebrated performers, playwrights, directors, composers and stage designers and has accumulated some of the finest repertoire of productions ranging over the wide diversity of Peking Opera performance styles as well as innovative pioneering works. For decades, the National Peking Opera Company has devoted tremendous resources in restoring and preserving existing operatic repertoires, as well as creating new works of
24-801: Is a frequent performer at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts since its debut at the Kennedy Center 25 years ago and has been invited to perform on several occasions as a main attraction in their programs. Ministry of Culture of the People%27s Republic of China In 1955, the Ministry of Culture sought to develop rural cultural networks to distribute media like other performances, lantern slides , books, cinema , radio, books, and to establish newspaper reading groups. On March 9, 1958,
32-558: The Cultural Revolution , in 1970 the communist party deemed the cultural politics of the ministry so disruptive that it was dissolved and a Culture Group was established within the State Council . In 1998, the Ministry of Culture revived the practice of mobile rural cinema as part of its 2131 Project which aimed to screen one movie month per village in rural China and upgrade analog equipment to digital projectors. The duty of
40-729: The Court , Die Lian Hua , Nightmare at the Han Palace , Royal Envoy on Thin Horse ， Princess Turandot , Lujiang River , Yi-shan Mountain and one of its most famous works, Women Generals of the Yang Family . The China National Peking Opera Company has visited over 50 countries, such as the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Hungary, Greece, Romania, the UK, Australia, and the former Soviet Union, and
48-485: The Ministry of Culture held a meeting to introduce a Great Leap Forward in cinema. During the Great Leap Forward , the film industry rapidly expanded, with documentary films being the genre that experienced the greatest growth. The number of film-screening venues, including both urban cinemas and mobile projectionist units that traveled through rural China, also radically increased during the this period. During
56-452: The highest artistic quality. The CNPOC consists of three troupes. First troupe was previously led by current vice-president of the company, the celebrated laosheng -performer Yu Kuizhi . Current head of the first troupe is Li Shengsu , second and third troupe are led by Li Haiyan and Zhang Jianguo respectively. Productions staged by these troupes are regularly screened on CCTV11 (The Chinese Central Television's channel for Chinese opera). In
64-561: The last fifty years, the CNPOC produced more than 500 traditional or new dramas with different subjects and genres. Its repertoire includes, Wild Pig Forest , Three Attacks on Zhu Village , At the Crossroad , Tale of the White Snake , The Mouth of Jiujiang River , Sun An Dong Ben , Xie Yaohuan , Mu Guiying in Command , Monkey King , Man Jiang Hong , The Red Lantern , Chuncao Entering
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