Cao Yu
Playwright, Author
1910 – 1996
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Who was Cao Yu?
Cao Yu, born as Wan Jiabao, was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century. His most well-known works are Thunderstorm, Sunrise and Peking Man. It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that the modern Chinese "spoken theater" took root in 20th-century Chinese literature.
Xiaomei Chen, author of The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama, said that Cao was "[e]nthroned as China's Ibsen,[...]"
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- Born
- Sep 24, 1910
Qianjiang - Also known as
- Yu Cao
- Nationality
- China
- Profession
- Education
- Tianjin Nankai High School
- Tsinghua University
- Died
- Dec 13, 1996
Beijing
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on July 23, 2013
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