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Peking Man

work by Cao Yu

Also known as: “Beijing Man”, “Beijingren”

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Chinese performing arts

In Chinese performing arts: The 20th and 21st centuries
…important plays, including Beijingren (1940; Beijing Man); heavily influenced by Eugene O’Neill and Henrik Ibsen, he portrayed dissolute members of the old gentry class and new rising entrepreneur class.
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discussed in biography

In Cao Yu
Peking Man), thought by many to be one of the masterpieces of modern Chinese drama; it is powerful in both characterization and its use of symbolism. Cao Yu was appointed the director of the Beijing People’s Art Theatre in the early 1950s and was elected…
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