Description
Dramatist Tsao Yu is often hailed as "the Shakespeare of China." Sunrise (1935), one of China's most revered 20th-century dramas, deals with Tsao's trademark themes of corruption, city life, and poverty. The story of Sunrise revolves around Chen Bailu, a high-class Shanghai courtesan who shuns a marriage offer from a childhood sweetheart to instead pursue a pleasure-seeking life in the city. This tale of social decadence and familial deceit remains as popular and as relevant today as it was in 1930s China.
