Yang Jian

Yang Jian, male, born in Beijing in 1952, is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the Department of Dramatic Literature at the Central Academy of Drama, specializing in playwriting. He has long been engaged in teaching and research on screenwriting and playwriting, and is the author of works including Reading Films: Lecture Notes on Film and Television Screenwriting, The Method of Creation, A Preliminary Course in Script Writing, and A History of Chinese Zhiqing Literature. He also participated in the creation of the play The Mulberry坪 Incident. This site holds five of his works, which span a wide range of subjects. Beyond professional writings on playwriting, they touch on clinical imaging, computer fundamentals, artificial intelligence and pattern recognition, and biography, showing that his reading and writing interests are not confined to drama alone. Public information is limited, and the details of his life and the full scope of his work are difficult to ascertain, but the available works suggest that he values both methodological exposition and the analysis of concrete cases.