The Military and Cultural Institute of National Defense University, People's Liberation Army (), previously the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art (, colloquially known as Junyi 军艺), is an academic institute of the

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, China. It has one campus, consisting of 7 departments and 12 specialties.

History

The PLA Academy of Art was founded in May 1960. It was revoked in October 1969, during the

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. In May 1976,

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and

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toppled the

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, two years later, the university was rebuilt. In 2017, the previous PLA Academy changed name to The Military and Cultural Institute, National Defense University PLA. The current chairman of the institute is Zhang Qichao.

Departments

* Department of Literature * Department of Arts * Department of Drama * Department of Music * Department of Dance * Department of Troop Culture * Department of Literature Administration

Notable alumni

Note that class year indicates the entrance year, not graduating year.

Department of Dance

*Class of 1979 :

Jin Xing Jin Xing or Kim Seong (; ; born 13 August 1967) is a Chinese dancer, choreographer, and actress. She is also known as one of the few transgender public figures in China. Early life Jin was born in 1967 in Shenyang, China, to a Chosŏnjok fam ...

*Class of 1993 :

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*Class of 2003 : Yang Yang *Unknown class :

Dong Jie Dong Jie (, born 19 April 1980) is a Chinese actress and dancer. Dong made her debut in Zhang Yimou's '' Happy Times'' (2000) ( Yimou girl), playing a blind girl mistreated by her stepmother. Zhang selected Dong after a casting call on the Int ...

Department of Drama

*Class of 1979 :

Liu Peiqi Liu Peiqi (; born 30 November 1957) is a Chinese actor. He started his training in 1979 when he joined Military Art School. He joined Military Drama Group in Xinjiang Province in 1983. In 1985 he starred in his first movie, '' Father and Son'', d ...

*Class of 1999 :

Yin Tao Yin Tao (, born 6 December 1979) is a Chinese actress. In 2017, she became the third Chinese actress to win the "Grand Slam", after winning "Best Actress" at the three biggest Chinese-language television awards including the Feitian Award, the ...

*Unknown class :

Xu Lu Xu Lu (, born 28 December 1994), also known as Lulu Xu, is a Chinese actress and singer. She first became recognized in China for her role in the drama ''Empresses in the Palace'' (2012) and internationally with the drama '' One and a Half Sum ...

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Department of Music

*Class of 2003 :

Alan Dawa Dolma Alan Dawa Dolma (born 25 July 1987), known mononymously as alan, is a Tibetan singer from China. She is a graduate of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Art in Beijing, majoring in vocal music and erhu, which she has played since chi ...

*Unknown class : Chen Sisi, Han Hong,

Tan Jing Tan Jing (; born September 11, 1977) is a solo Chinese singer in the CPC Central Military Commission Political Department Song and Dance Troupe and a first class national actress. Her music blends bel canto, Chinese national music (Guoyue), and ...

Department of Troop Culture

*Unknown class : Liu Jing

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Dai Yuqiang Dai Yuqiang (; March 12, 1963) is a Chinese operatic tenor. He was the first and only Chinese student of Luciano Pavarotti. With Wei Song and Warren Mok Warren Mok () is a Hong Kong-based Macau operatic tenor who has performed many leading role ...

Lin Yongjian Lin Yongjian (, born 14 February 1970) is a Chinese actor. Lin graduated from PRC Academy of Drama in 1990 and has been a successful stage actor at Guangzhou Soldiers' Drama Troupe after graduation. He has been starring in more than 50 comedi ...

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Mo Yan Guan Moye (; born 5 March 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges fol ...

Qian Gang Qian Gang (; born 11 August 1953) is a Chinese non-fiction writer and journalist from Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province, China who over four decades has written hundreds of articles and dozens of books. Life In 1969 Qian joined the People's Liber ...

Sa Dingding Sa Dingding (, born Zhou Peng () on 27 December 1983) is a Chinese folk singer and songwriter. She is of mixed Han Chinese and Mongol ancestry, and sings in languages including Mandarin Chinese, English, Standard Tibetan, as well as an imaginary ...

Wang Hongwei Wang Hongwei (; born in Anyang, Henan) is a Chinese actor. Wang is perhaps best known for his work with director Jia Zhangke. The two men were classmates at the Beijing Film Academy when they began their professional relationship, with Wang star ...

* Yan Ni *

Alice Longyu Gao Alice Longyu Gao () is a Chinese singer, songwriter, DJ, and performance artist currently based in New York City and Los Angeles. Her music has been noted for its "bold hyperpop" production. Her music has been featured on BBC Radio as "Tune of Th ...

Notable faculty

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Peng Liyuan Peng Liyuan (; born 20 November 1962) is a Chinese contemporary folk singer and the wife of Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China. Peng gained popularity as a singer from her regular appear ...

References

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