Professor Zhang Xianping graduated from the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Fudan University and got his master degree from Codarts University for the Arts in 1991. He had served as the cultural counselor at Consulate General of the PRC in Los Angeles, vice chairman of the CPPCC Pudong Committee, deputy director of Pudong Administration of Culture, Radio, Film and TV, deputy director-general of the construction headquarters of Shanghai Oriental Art Center and the center director and vice president of the SHCM.
As an expert in cultural policies, Professor Zhang Xianping has a thorough understanding of cultural institutional features and policies in Europe, the US and advanced Asian countries. He offers courses “Cultural Policies Comparison and Contrast”, “Cultural Industry and Management”, etc.
Research direction: cultural administration and cultural policy; European and American cultural ecology; management of cultural industry
