The China Theatre Plum Blossom Award ( simplified Chinese : 中国戏剧梅花奖 ; traditional Chinese : 中國戲劇梅花獎 ; pinyin : Zhōngguó Xìjù Méihuā Jiǎng ), more commonly the Plum Blossom Award , is the highest theatrical award in China . It is awarded by the China Theatre Association .
5-618: Several Taiwanese have also won the award, such as Wei Hai-min . The Plum Blossom Award was founded in 1983 by Liu Housheng , Vice President of the China Theatre Association , and his colleagues. In 1994, the China Theatre Association began awarding Second Plum Blossom Prizes to distinguished performers who had already won the prize once. In 2002, the Association began the policy of awarding
10-411: A Peking opera superstar. She is the first student of Mei Baojiu , who is one of the most well-known Peking opera masters in the world. Wei Hai-min shot to fame in the 1980s with Wu Hsing-kuo 's Contemporary Legend Theatre, known for adapting Western classics into Peking opera. In the 1990s she became the leading diva of the newly-founded GuoGuang Opera Company. In 2009 she worked with Robert Wilson on
15-484: The Plum Blossom Grand Prize to performers who had won the prize twice previously and continued to be active and innovative in the field. There have been four winners of that award to date: Shang Changrong in 2002, Song Guofeng and Mao Weitao in 2007, and Pei Yanling in 2009. The Plum Blossom Prize has been awarded every two years since 2005, as opposed to every year as it was previously. Due to
20-541: The Plum Blossom Prize that she had been awarded because of what she called "the scandal of corruption and lies behind the selection process". Wei Hai-min Wei Hai-min ( Chinese : 魏海敏 ; born 1957) is a Taiwanese Peking opera singer-actress who plays Dan roles. A winner of Taiwan's National Award for Arts [ zh ] and China's Plum Blossom Prize , Wei is widely recognized
25-465: The promulgation of the "Administration of Art, Journalism, and Publishing Awards" circular by the Ministry of Culture in 2005, the number of such awards was reduced, and the Plum Blossom Prize was combined with another prize. Beginning in 2009, the selection process for the Plum Blossom Prize was changed into a televised competition among fifty hopefuls. In 1992, actress Song Dandan refused to accept
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