Author · China
Hong Shen
Died in 1955
Hong Shen was born on 31 December 1894 in Wujin, in Jiangsu. A graduate of Tsinghua school, he went to the United States on a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to study ceramics at Ohio State University, where he wrote his first plays in English, then from 1919 followed George Pierce Baker's course in dramatic art at Harvard. Back in 1922, he taught at Fudan University, staged plays for the Shanghai Dramatic Association and worked for the cinema. He died in Beijing in 1955.