张彭春:中国戏剧现代化的引领者与国际化的推介者

Zhang Pengchun: The Pioneer in the Modernization of Chinese Theatre and the Advocator for the Internationalization of Chinese Theatre

张彭春是20世纪上半叶中国戏剧现代化的引领者与国际化的推介者。他直接将西方戏剧引入中国并使文明新戏转向现代话剧,影响了我国现实主义戏剧的发展。他是中国话剧导演制的开创者,培养了一批话剧艺术家,为中国戏剧在世界争得一席之地做出了自己的贡献。而在五四时期一片否定中国传统戏曲的喊声中,他既吸收西方戏剧的精华,又提倡京剧改革,保存和发扬了中国传统戏剧的精华,为中国京剧走向世界做出了杰出贡献。

Zhang Pengchun was a pioneer in the modernization of Chinese theatre and an advocator for the internationalization of Chinese theatre in the first half of the Twentieth Century. He introduced western drama into China, turned Wenmingxinxi （the civilized drama） into the modern Huaju and influenced the development of realistic drama in China. He is a pioneer of director-oriented Huaju, and trained a great number of Huaju professionals. He made many contributions to help Chinese theatre earn its reputation in the world. In the wave against traditional Chinese theatre during the period of the May Fourth Movement, he both learned from the western drama and promoted a reformation of Peking Opera, which made it possible for the quintessence of traditional Chinese theatre to be kept and for Peking Opera to be introduced to the world.