Academic Achievements of Fu Shihua

In 1931, Fu Shihua served as editorial director and acting chairman of the Beiping National Opera Society founded by Mei Lanfang and Qi Shan, and participated in the editing of National Opera Pictorial and Drama Series. He was editor-in-chief with Fu Yunzi of the weekly magazine North China Daily - Popular Literature. After 1941, Fu Shihua, who had not attended university, began lecturing on Chinese literature and opera at Peking University. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked as a researcher and librarian at the Chinese Academy of Opera.

Just when he was busy with his pen and forgetful work, the disease cruelly attacked him. A stroke paralyzed half of his body, and his right hand could not hold a pen to write. He started practicing writing with his left hand with strong perseverance and recorded more than 10,000 cards.

The works he compiled after his serious illness include the General Record of Traditional Beijing Opera, the Complete List of Miscellaneous Operas of the Qing Dynasty, the Anthology of Chinese Classical Literature and Prints, and the unpublished Complete List of Legends of the Qing Dynasty.

He was the author of Diyuxuan Zangquzhi and Supplement to the History of Chinese Novels, and he also edited Selected Operas, General Record of Chinese Classical Operas, General Catalogue of Children's Books, General Record of Yuan Dynasty Miscellaneous Operas, General Record of Beijing Traditional Operas, Selected Works of Chinese Classical Literature Prints and Paintings (Upper and Lower), and Collection of the Legend of the White Snake, and he took part in editing and editing Chinese Classical Opera Treatises.

The Chinese Classics and Literature

Fu Shihua's part of the book, in the end of the Cultural Revolution published and reprinted, but unfortunately, many of his very valuable academic papers, but could not be published in a collection; and his masterpiece, "Qing Dynasty Legends" book has been handed over to the publisher after the completion of the manuscript is ready to be published, but due to the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution and failed to be published, the manuscript is still unknown whereabouts.

Now, when we in the China Academy of Art library to check the information, often encounter some of the school of opera graduate students, to the library staff to ask Fu Shihua, "Qing Dynasty Legends," some of the situation. Yes, people seem to be coincidentally silently looking forward to a miracle, that is, the high academic value of the manuscript of the Qing Dynasty Legends can be lost and found.