Zhou Shaolin

03-1013Peking OperaTraditional OperaShanghaiBatch 3 (2009)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

He is a son of the celebrated master of Qi-school performing art Zhou Xinfang. Besides inheriting his father's Qi-school art, he studied martial plays under Wang Shaofang and Liu Junlin, civil plays under Chan Baofu, Chen Xiuhua and Liu Shuyi, and kunqu under Fang Chuanyun. In 1960 he formally joined the Shanghai Peking Opera Theatre, starring in traditional plays. He played Diao Deyi in the modern play Lu Dang Huo Zhong (A Fire in the Reed Marshes) and an American officer in Nan Fang Zhan Ge (Battle Song of the South), successfully creating images of negative characters on the Peking Opera stage. After 1980 he taught the performing arts of film, spoken drama and opera in the United States. He returned to China in 2001 and settled in Shanghai. He was successively engaged as a research fellow of the Shanghai Research Institute of Culture and History, a council member of the Shanghai Overseas Friendship Association and an adviser to the Zhou Xinfang Art Research Society.

Honors & Recognition

Male, Han ethnicity, born in September 1934, died in December 2010, a native of Cixi County, Zhejiang Province. He is a representative bearer of Peking Opera, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. In 1979 he starred in Zhou Xinfang's famous play Hai Rui Shang Shu (Hai Rui Submits a Memorial) with great success.

References & Archival Sources

Zhou Shaolin · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Peking Opera
Item code: Ⅳ-28
Category: Traditional Opera
Region: Shanghai
Born: 1934.09.27
Batch: Batch 3 (2009)

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