WRITER

Tian Han

1898 - 1968

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Tian Han (Chinese: 田汉; 12 March 1898 – 10 December 1968), formerly romanized as T'ien Han, was a Chinese drama activist, playwright, a leader of revolutionary music and films, as well as a translator and poet. He emerged at the time of the New Culture Movement of the early 20th century and continued to be active until the Cultural Revolution, when he was denounced and jailed for two years until his death, before being "posthumously rehabilitated" by the Chinese authorities in 1979. He is considered by drama historians as one of the three founders of Chinese spoken drama, together with Ouyang Yuqian and Hong Shen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tian Han has received more than 134,802 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Tian Han is the 2,632nd most popular writer (down from 2,408th in 2019), the 666th most popular biography from China (down from 596th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Chinese Writer.

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  • 130k

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  • 54.04

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Tian Han san wen ji
1973
Kang zhan yu xi ju
Chinese drama, History and criticism
1938
Genetic Analyses of Wheat and Molecular Marker-Assisted Breeding, Volume 2
Gene mapping
2015
Tian Han dai biao zuo
1986
A Q zheng zhuan
1965
Tian Han ju zuo xuan
1955

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tian Han ranks 2,632 out of 7,302. Before him are Orson Scott Card, Abraham ibn Daud, Frederick Marryat, Józef Czapski, Matthias Claudius, and Hella Haasse. After him are Eric Carle, Censorinus, Tayeb Salih, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Rahman Baba, and Asadi Tusi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Tian Han ranks 115. Before him are Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, Paul Robeson, Messali Hadj, Eric Hoffer, Ernst Wollweber, and Marcel Griaule. After him are Helmut Hasse, Albert Lutuli, Étienne Decroux, Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Irene Dunne, and Benjamin Fondane. Among people deceased in 1968, Tian Han ranks 97. Before him are R. Norris Williams, Tallulah Bankhead, Tivadar Soros, Lilian Harvey, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, and Gholamreza Takhti. After him are Herbert Read, Randolph Churchill, George Hackenschmidt, Sigfried Giedion, Alfredo Foglino, and Anthony Asquith.

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In China

Among people born in China, Tian Han ranks 666 out of 1,610. Before him are Cheng Hao (1032), Zhang Zhidong (1837), Fritz-Julius Lemp (1913), Ho Feng-Shan (1901), Sima Tan (-165), and Hu Zhengyan (1584). After him are Salchak Toka (1901), Li Cheng (919), Mang of Xia (null), Liu Zhiyuan (895), Cai E (1882), and Li Tang (1050).

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Among WRITERS In China

Among writers born in China, Tian Han ranks 67. Before him are Ai Qing (1910), Guan Hanqing (1210), Yuan Mei (1716), Xu Zhimo (1897), Jung Chang (1952), and Sima Tan (-165). After him are Lu Ji (261), Sogyal Rinpoche (1947), Tang Xianzu (1550), Song Yingxing (1587), Gu Yanwu (1613), and Guan Daosheng (1262).

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