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Cao Yu

Died in 1996

Wan Jiabao, who took the pen name Cao Yu, was born on 24 September 1910, in Qianjiang, in Hubei, according to Encyclopedia.com, in Tianjin according to Britannica, the city where his family settled. At Nankai secondary school, he acted in Western plays, and then studied Western literature at Tsinghua. After 1949, he directed the Beijing People's Art Theatre and chaired the dramatists' association. Declared a counter-revolutionary in 1966 and rehabilitated after the Cultural Revolution, he died in Beijing on 13 December 1996.

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