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Zhou Chaojun
Ming dramatist from Yin County, Zhejiang, a licentiate in the Wanli reign whose one surviving play is The Story of the Red Plum; his dates are unknown.
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 Zi Yimao · Zi Yiyu
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Zhou Chaojun, from Yin County, Zhejiang, was a Ming dramatist and a licentiate in the Wanli reign; little is known of his life, and his birth and death years are unknown. His one surviving play, The Story of the Red Plum, has come down in editions including the Guangqingtang printing; the Kunqu excerpts Escape from the Trap, The Ghost's Defence and Fortune-telling all come from it.
Life and times
Dates Dates unknown; a licentiate in the Wanli reign (1573–1620)