Guan Hanqing

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Guan.
Guan Hanqing
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
A 1958 U.S.S.R. postage stamp commemorating Guan Hanqing.

Guan Hanqing (c. 1241–1320), sobriquet "the Oldman of the Studio" (齋叟 Zhāisǒu), was a notable Chinese playwright and poet in the Yuan Dynasty. He has been described as among the most prolific and highly regarded dramatists of the Yuan period.[1]

Guan spent much of his later life in Dadu and produced about 65 plays, mostly in the vernacular of the time. Fourteen of his plays are extant, including:

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References

  1. Chan, Sin-Wai and David E. Pollard (2001). An Encyclopaedia of Translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese. Chinese University Press. p. 178. ISBN 9789622019973.

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