刘祯

Public information on Liu Zhen is limited, and his research and writing center mainly on Chinese opera and local culture. The library holds 19 of his works, including the ten-volume Chinese Opera Art and Local Culture series and the Mei Lanfang Fei series, which examines Mei Lanfang's performances in the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States. Other titles, such as Sichuan Opera and Bashu Folkways, Qinqiang Opera and Silk Road Culture, and Pingju Opera and Urban Folk Culture, focus on the relationship between local opera genres and regional customs, trade routes, and everyday urban life. His works, generally classified under film and television or biography, combine scholarly organization with accessible narration, using opera genres as threads to present the ties between opera and local society and drawing on Mei Lanfang's overseas performances to show the cross-cultural spread of Peking opera.