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Hao Jian, born in 1954, is a Chinese film critic and scenarist. He worked as an electric welder from 1971-1979. He graduated from the Chinese department of Nanjing Normal University in 1983 and received a master degree from China Motion Picture Research Center. He is currently a professor at Beijing Academy of Film.

In 2000, Hao Jian won the Gold Rooster Prize of the Chinese Film Workers Association for the best scenarist (Crash Landing). He attended Taipei Film Festival (Taipei, 2002), Franco-Chinese Filmmakers Society’s Chinese Film Exhibition (Paris, 2004), Pushan International Film Festival (Pushan, 2008) and New York University Documentary Biennial (New York, 2008), among other academic activities and cultural exchange programs. In 2007, he was the curator of People’s Images, a section for the Chinese independent films on Brazil’s Ouro Preto International Audiovisual Festival.

His published works include A Study of Genre Films (Peking University Press, 2002), Obliged Carnival (Shanghai Sanlian Publishing House, 2004), Chinese TV Drama, A Cultural and Typological Study (China Cinema Publishing House 2008).