Author · China
Tian Han
Died in 1968
Tian Han was born in 1898 in Hunan, near Changsha. He studied in Japan, at the Tokyo Higher Normal School, where he discovered modern theatre and, with Guo Moruo and Yu Dafu, founded the Creation Society. According to a study by Ruru Li, he produced in 1922 the first complete Chinese translation of Hamlet. He founded the Southern Society to promote spoken drama, wrote in 1935 the lyrics of the March of the Volunteers, which became in 1949 the national anthem of the People's Republic, and died in prison in Beijing in 1968, persecuted during the Cultural Revolution.