Tian Han

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Tian Han ( Chinese  田漢  /  田汉 , Pinyin Tián Hàn , coming of age Shouchang 寿昌, born March 12, 1898 in Changsha , Hunan Province , China ; † December 10, 1968 in prison) was a Chinese writer , known for his dramas , operas and Film manuscripts . His poem March of the Volunteers was used as the text for the national anthem of the People's Republic of China .

Tian Han

Life

Tian Han was already studying the literary form of drama and its classic form of opera while attending the Changsha University of Education . The publication of several articles in the local daily newspaper on this subject falls within this framework.

From 1918 he continued his studies at the Higher Teachers' Training College of Tokyo continued. After his return to China in 1921, he founded the Literary Society Creation together with Guo Moruo , took a position at the Zhonghua publishing house in Shanghai and became literary - working on magazines, founding other companies and acting groups. Tian Hans’s involvement in literary circles is characterized by a distancing from traditional values ​​and a modernization.

In 1927 he made three films under his direction, but their success was surpassed by his dramas. As a result of his membership in the Communist Party and the League of Left-wing Writers from 1932, he received a one-year prison sentence in 1934. Nevertheless, he became head of the propaganda department of the military commission in 1938, which resulted in an anti-Japanese orientation of his artistic work.

When the founding of the People's Republic of China was proclaimed in 1949, Tian Han was entrusted with a post on the government's culture and education council and head of the arts bureau in the ministry of culture. He was accepted into the committee for the reform of the written language, and a short time later into the Bureau for the Improvement of Drama and Opera of the Ministry of Culture. In 1953 he was elected chairman of the Dramatists 'Society and a member of the Council of the Writers' Union, and in 1960 he was deputy chairman of the Association for Literary and Artistic Circles and a member of parliament.

Because of the encoded criticism contained in his works, Tian Han was arrested at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. He died in prison in 1968 at the age of 70. In 1979 he was posthumously rehabilitated.

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Dramas

Tian Han (right) and Nie Er , poet and composer of the Chinese national anthem, recorded in Shanghai in 1933
  • A night in a café, 1920
  • The night of the tiger catch, 1921
  • Nocturnal conversation in Suzhou, 1927
  • Tragedy on the Lakeshore, 1929
  • Return to the South, 1929
  • Carmen, 1930
  • Moonlight Sonata, 1932
  • The flood, 1932
  • Alarm bell, 1932
  • Marco Polo Bridge, 1937
  • The True Story of the AQ, 1937 - Dramatization of Lu Xun's narrative
  • The White Snake, 1953 - musical theater piece
  • The West Room, 1959 - music theater piece
  • Princess Wencheng, 1961
  • Xie Yaohuan, 1963
  • Tian Hans Musical Theater Pieces, 1981 - (two volumes)

Scripts

  • Go to the people, 1927
  • The sound of a broken flute, 1927
  • Three modern women, 1932
  • Golden Times, 1932
  • Children of Troubled Times, 1935
  • Triumphal March, 1940

Translations

  • Wilde: Salome, 1921
  • Shakespeare: Hamlet, 1922
  • Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, 1924

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personal data
SURNAME Tian, ​​Han
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tian, ​​Shouchang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese playwright and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Changsha , Hunan Province
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1968
Place of death jail