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Li Chien-Wu 
and Modern Chinese Drama1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
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In the sketchy accounts which at present stand in for histories of the modern Chinese theatre, the name of Li Chien-wu appears either not at all, or in the lists of ‘these also served’. He was one of the several talented play-wrights who neither presented themselves early enough to earn honourable mention as pioneers, nor were emphatic enough to make a lasting political impression. He came of age in that lost, perhaps now futile, decade of the 1930's when so many Chinese writers discovered what to do with the art forms their predecessors had introduced and experimented with, when the native genius had absorbed and was beginning effectively to explore the wider possibilities of literature—the darker recesses of the mind, the lighter uplands of comedy—which Western works had opened to them.
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- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , June 1976 , pp. 364 - 388
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- Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 1976
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