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by Cao Yu, تساو يو, عبدالعزيز حمدي عبدالعزيز (Translator)

Sunrise (English Edition) revolves around Chen Bailu and Fang Dasheng, regarding Chen's living room and Baohe Xiachu, a third class brothel as its arenas to vividly reveal people from all walks of life before the audience and unveil the nature of the system of feudal exploitation characterized by "harming the weak and serving the strong". In artistic creation, the author tried to present the real society life by adopting the cross-sectional description. Therefore, Sunrise has the documentary features, and everything in it is like things in real life instead of those in a "play".《日出(英文版)》以陈白露和方达生为中心，以陈的客厅和三等妓院宝和下处为活动场所，把社会各阶层各色人等的生活展现在观众面前，揭露剥削制度“损不足以奉有余”的本质。在艺术创作上，作者采用横断面的描写，力求写出社会生活的真实面貌，因而《日出》具有纪实性特点，一切都像生活本身而不像“戏”。

Genres: Drama, Plays, Chinese Literature

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1933

About the author

Cao Yu (曹禺; September 24, 1910—December 13, 1996), born as Wan Jiabao (萬家寶/万家宝), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of the 20th century. His most well-known works are Thunderstorm (1933), Sunrise (1936) and Peking Man (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that the modern Chinese "spoken theater" took root in 20th-century Chinese literature.

Reviews

[Mitja Rupnik · Rating 5 out of 5]

1930s China was a mess, much like most of the world around that time. Yet some people were too rich to notice the suffering of those around them. This drama is a tragedy and everybody suffers, but you really don't feel as if some grave injustice happened to those people, as they act entitled and privileged. It captures the desperation of its time. I enjoyed it.

Word of warning though: It contains trace amounts of French and the name of the waiter is supposedly "Waiter", even though his proper name is Ba.

[Yilin Wong]

看胡四真的覺得娛樂圈男人和富婆姐姐的关系这么多年就沒變過lol。黑三真的就是壞，方達生都找到門口了就是不讓小東西走。曹禺也很噁心，yy陳白露愛上的人是自己。 。 。就🤮
本來讀是為了compare看的戲和劇本的區別琢磨改動的，結果隔太久什麼都不記得了。 。 。只看到很多細節都很難在舞台表現出來，很多人物consolidate或者砍掉了。剧本里方達生就是一朵小白花，烦死人的圣父货色，戏里面感觉会更有迂腐气，陈白露还是死了，多了是一点都不记得。

[二六 侯 · Rating 3 out of 5]

語氣跟巴金的作品有幾分相似，不愧是好友（逃）……

[Rick Wen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Best part is the speech of an underdog