Cao Yu

Cao Yu (Chinese曹禺, Pinyin Cao Yǔ, W.-G. Ts'ao Yü; birth name万家 宝, Wan Jiabao Wan Chia- Bao; * September 24, 1910; † 13 December 1996, Qianjiang, Hubei Province ) is a Chinese writer.

Biography

Grew up as an orphan of a rich state officials, he moved to Tianjin in order to continue his education at the Nankai School, and came across the drama group at school for the first time with Western literature in touch. His studies he continued with the enrollment for the subject of political economy at Nankai University, to switch a short time later at the Tsinghua University in Beijing in the Department of Western Languages ​​and Literature. With his degree in his pocket in 1933, he became a teacher at a middle school in Baoding. During this period, recorded at the same time the beginning of his literary career off with the release of his first drama storm which was immediately successful. 1936 brought him his work in the field of literature a distinction one of the leading newspapers ( Dagong ). Shortly before the attack by the Japanese, he was involved in the founding of the Chinese Drama Society. When the government was consequently forced to move their headquarters in the province of Sichuan, Cao Yu followed her and was charged locally with a professorship at the National Drama School. Immediately after the end of the war he was invited to a year-long lecture tour in the United States, where he met Bertolt Brecht on a kindred spirit.

Despite his participation in the I. Political Consultative Conference prior to the founding of the People 's Republic of China, at the invitation of the Communists, Cao Yu renounced ultimately to a share in the government's work, but was shortly afterwards head of the Drama Institute, which was affiliated to the Ministry of Culture and held this position until 1956. He also took over 1953 senior positions at the Beijing People's Theatre and in 1956 at the Beijing Institute of Art and Drama. Only at that point he joined the Communist Party and became secretary of the Writers' Union. Cao Yu saw With the onset of the Cultural Revolution in 1966 his conviction as a counter-revolutionary, but was in 1975 rehabilitated, recorded in 1978 in the National People's Congress in 1979 again head of the Beijing People's Theatre and President of the Dramatists' Association, three years later, vice chairman of the Chinese PEN Centre.

Bibliography

Dramas

  • Thunderstorm ( Lei雷雨yǔ ), 1934
  • Sunrise (日出Rì chū ), 1936
  • Wilderness (原野Yuan Ye ), 1936
  • Just once think, 1940
  • The Metamorphosis, 1940
  • The Peking Man (北京人at Jing řén ), 1940
  • The Family, 1942 - dramatization of the novel by Ba Jin
  • Bright Day, 1948 - Screenplay
  • Sky without clouds (明朗 的 天Míng lǎng de tian ), 1956
  • Bile and Sword (胆 剑 篇Dǎnjiànpiān ), 1961
  • Wang Zhaojun (王昭君Wáng Zhao Jun ), 1978

Translations

  • Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, 1945
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