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Cao Yu
Cao Yu (1910–1996), a playwright whose real name was Wan Jiabao, published the play Thunderstorm in 1934 and also wrote Sunrise, Wilderness and Peking Man.
In a study at night, a desk holds a brush pot, a porcelain vase with a plum branch, a lit red lantern, a folded fan and an unrolled blank scroll, with no one seated there, while through a round window the moon rises over a lake with a sailboat.
Also known as Wan Jiabao (real name) · Xiaoshi (courtesy name)
- Roles
- Writer / Poet
Cao Yu, whose real name was Wan Jiabao and whose courtesy name was Xiaoshi, was born in Tianjin, with ancestral roots in Qianjiang, Hubei. He entered Nankai Middle School in 1922, then Nankai University, and later moved to the Western literature department at Tsinghua University, graduating in 1933. He finished Thunderstorm at Tsinghua in the summer and autumn of 1933, and it was published in the Literary Quarterly in July 1934; he went on to write Sunrise, Wilderness and Peking Man and in 1942 adapted Ba Jin's novel Family for the stage.
Life and times
Dates 1910–1996