biography
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Cao Yu
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pseudonym of Wan Jiabao
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pronunciation:
[chow yoo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1910–96)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Tianjin, E China. The most significant 20th-c playwright in China, he studied Western literature at Qinghua University (1930–4). His best-known work, Thunderstorm, was staged in 1935; other major plays included Metamorphosis (1940) and Family (1941). After the foundation of the People's Republic in 1949 he was appointed to numerous official posts. In 1979 he wrote the play The Consort of Peace. |
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