Feng Changchun, born in 1971 in Linyi of Shandong Province, received his PhD degree from the Chinese National Academy of Arts and is a professor and PhD advisor of the music department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He is also vice president of Chinese Music History Association, council member of Chinese Music & Art Association and Chinese Music Critics’ Association, project assessor for National Social Science and Art projects, expert reviewer for Humanistic and Social Scientific projects of the Ministry of Education, part-time researcher with Beijing Ethnic Music Communication Base. He has published more than one hundred treatises, and has 9 major works of books, editorials, translations, and has taken in charge of two national key projects.
He does research in contemporary music history in China and music aesthetics and teaches courses of Chinese contemporary music history, Chinese contemporary and modern music history, Chinese music zeitgeist in the 20th Century, Chinese art song history in the 20th Century.
