【Academic Achievements】 The Chinese Academic Translation Project of the National Social Science Foundation Ancient Chinese Opera and Eastern Culture Published in Japanese

The Japanese version ofAncient Chinese Opera and Eastern Culturepublished by Wuhan University publishing house was published by the renowned academic publishing institution Kyoto University Academic Press in January 2023. This Japanese version was sponsored by the Chinese Academic Translation Project of the National Social Science Foundation in 2017.

The author Zheng Chuanyin is a professor at the School of Art ofWuhan University. Formerly served as the Dean of the College of Chinese Language and Literature at Wuhan University and Vice President of the Chinese Opera Society. Zheng Chuanyin was selected as a young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions in Hubei Province, and the Chief Expert of thetextbookHistory of Chinese Opera. In 2018, he was appointed as one of the first resident researchers of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Wuhan University. Professor Zheng Chuanyin has three monographs that have been recommended for the Chinese Academic Translation Program ofNational Social Science Foundation. Among them, the Russian version of another work published by Wuhan University Press,Introduction to Chinese Opera Culture, was approved by the National Social Science Foundation's Chinese Academic Translation Program in 2022.

Ancient Chinese Opera and Eastern Cultureis the final achievement of the National Social Science Foundation project "Research on Classical Chinese Opera Literature and Eastern Culture ", and a key national book publishing project for the 11th Five Year Plan. It has won the Humanities and Social Sciences Achievement Award of the Ministry of Education.

This book mainly examines the relationship between Chinese opera and traditional dramas of neighboring Asian countries, explains the impact of Chinese opera on traditional dramas of neighboring countries, summarizes the characteristics of ancient Chinese opera, and explores its cultural implications. Against the backdrop of the increasing popularity of contrasting Chinese and Western drama, this work takes a unique approach, focusing on the relationship between ancient Chinese drama and Eastern culture, and conducting a comparative study of traditional Eastern drama. It has received high attention and praise from the academic community.

The traditional Chinese version ofAncient Chinese Opera and Eastern Culturewas published in Taiwan in 2010 and won the Outstanding Copyright Book Award for the 30th Anniversary of the First Cross Strait Publishing Exchange in August 2018. In addition to the Japanese version, the English version of the work was also approved for the Chinese Academic Translation Program of the National Social Science Foundation in 2019.

The Chinese Academic Translation Program of the National Social Science Foundation mainly supports academic works that represent China's academic standards, reflect the essence of Chinese culture and academic frontiers in China. They are published in foreign languages in authoritative foreign publishing institutions and thus can enter the mainstream distribution and dissemination channels abroad, so as to enhance foreign understanding of contemporary China and Chinese traditional culture, promote academic exchanges and dialogue between China and foreign countries, and improve the international influence of Chinese philosophy and social sciences. Wuhan University publishing house attaches great importance to the application work of Chinese academic translation projects, and takes the project application as an opportunity to actively promote the "going global" of Wuhan University academic works. As of now, a total of 8 Chinese academic translation projects have been approved, ranking among the top of all publishers in China.

(The above pictures are the covers of the first edition ofAncient Chinese Opera and Eastern Culturepublished by Wuhan University Press in 2007 and the revised edition in 2022, the traditional Chinese version in Taiwan in 2010, and the Japanese version in 2023, as well as the honorary certificates of the Outstanding Copyright Book Award for the 30th Anniversary of Cross Strait Publishing Exchange in 2018.)