Shanghai Science Hall Lawn Concert: A Dialogue between Art and Science

As one of the three major awards of Chinese TV dramas, the Magnolia Award at the Shanghai TV Festival has received high attention from peers and audiences at home and abroad every year. The selection of this year's Magnolia Awards has collected nearly 1900 television works from 49 countries and regions, and the competition is extremely fierce. Faced with numerous high-quality TV dramas, listen to the judges' selection of the best. On June 21st, the TV drama category judging committee led by film and television scholar Hu Zhifeng made a collective appearance at the 28th Shanghai TV Festival Magnolia Award judging panel meeting. "This year's Magnolia Awards have gathered the creative achievements of the past two years, providing a panoramic view and display of the production landscape of Chinese TV dramas in the past two years." Hu Zhifeng said that with the rapid development of Chinese TV dramas, there has been a "blowout" creative landscape in Chinese TV dramas, and there is an endless stream of image level TV dramas, which are "excellent"

As an important international television exchange platform in Asia and even the world, the "Magnolia Dialogue" TV Forum is the highlight of the Shanghai Television Festival. At the forum, scholars, experts, content producers, broadcasting institutions, and other participants in the upstream and downstream TV industry chain gathered together to exchange ideas and engage in dialogue based on different topics, which is exactly the significance of the festival. The 28th Shanghai Television Festival has set up a special "Documentary Day", and a series of activities will be held on June 21st. Documentaries from both China and abroad are discussing the new era expression and international narrative of documentaries. The challenges of new media, new technologies, and new narratives have been a crucial stage in the high-quality development of Chinese documentaries over the past decade. The number and quality of documentary creations have significantly increased, and the commercial value has further highlighted. According to Yien Data, the production time of documentaries in 2022 exceeded 90000 hours

In 1793, the Macartney Mission's visit to China was the first formal diplomatic contact between China and Britain. For a considerable period of time, people's understanding of this event was generally: "The political and economic structures of China and Britain are completely different, and the governments of both countries have adopted a tenacious and uncompromising attitude of resistance in order to maintain their social systems and historical traditions." The occurrence and development of diplomatic events have an unavoidable factor - translation. When British people send missions to China, there will inevitably be language barriers. In order for the mission to effectively communicate with the Qing court, it must rely on translation, which means that translation is an important element of the mission's activities in China. What role did translation play in the Marco Polo delegation's visit to China? What is the significance of understanding this event for us? Professor Wang Hongzhi, Emeritus of the Department of Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, has written a new book titled "Dialogue between Dragons and Lions"

On June 11th, 2023, the Shanghai Shanghai Opera Art Festival kicked off in Haishen Village, Huinan Town, Pudong New Area, singing the "voice of Shanghai" and providing a colorful and enjoyable cultural life for theater fans. The opening ceremony is divided into eight chapters: "Red Classics", "Traditional Novels", "Modern Novels", "Suit Qipao", "Innovative Theme", "Fuzi Xinsheng", "New Era", and "Setting Sail". Through classic singing segments such as "Shanghai Sound Shines Over the Pujiang River", "Reed Fire Seed", "Starry Fire", "Jiang Jie", "Difficult Journey", "Tao Xingzhi", "Under the Pomegranate Skirt", "Thunderstorm", "Moss Flower", "Number One Secret", "Alley Premier", and "Chen Yi in Shanghai", the creative achievements and national influence of Shanghai opera in the field of red culture are showcased. The main stage is decorated with three irregular large screens in the shape of Shanghai style rural buildings, echoing the surrounding rural farmhouses.

The Central Ballet Troupe of the National Ballet Team is coming, bringing the new dance drama "Dream of the Red Chamber" and the classic work "Little Mermaid" directly to the Shanghai stage. At the end of June, the "Performing Arts World · 2023 Chinese Ballet Shanghai Summer Performance Season" jointly created by Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts Group and the Central Ballet Troupe will be held at the Shanghai Grand Theatre. On June 8th, Shanghai Wenguang Performing Arts Group and the Central Ballet signed a strategic cooperation agreement: in the next three years, the two sides will work together to create a brand performance season, allowing Shanghai citizens to enjoy top-notch ballet banquets at their doorstep. The original dance drama "Dream of the Red Chamber" is an annual drama prepared by the Chinese Barbarian calendar for three years. It premiered in Beijing in February, gathering industry elites such as composer Ye Xiaogang, chief director Tong Ruirui, screenwriter Feng Li, stage designer Liu Xinglin, and fashion designer Yang Donglin. On the 8th, Tong Ruirui stated in Shanghai that“