Sunrise / Cao Yu.

London [England] : Methuen Drama (UK), 2016

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

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"Published in 1936 and premiered in Shanghai the following year, "Sunrise" portrays a kaleidoscope of characters around Chen Bailu, an educated courtesan who is the centre of nightlife in a big hotel. She is supported by a bank manager Pan Yueting and surrounded by other high-society figures, such as a foreign-educated bureaucrat, who readily spouts English words and divorces his wife in pursuit of younger prizes, and a rich widow in pursuit of a young gigolo. We also meet Chen's former friend Fang Dasheng who attempts to lead Chen away from her decadent life and a young girl whom Chen attempts to rescue from the claws of local gangsters. Completing this societal portraiture are Pan's secretary who makes desperate gambles in an effort to climb up the social ladder, a fired clerk in Pan's bank being kicked off that ladder, a prostitute with a compassionate heart and low-life characters such as the hotel steward and gangsters. Compared with" Thunderstorm's tight plot," Sunrise's concentric structure centred around Chen provides the reader and audience with panoramic insight into the different strata of life in modern China."-- Provided by publisher.

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