Hu Tieh West. Butterfly Wu Hu Tieh (1907-), was an actress. As Butterfly Wu, she achieved international recognition as the star of Chinese films of the 1920s and early 1930s. She abandoned her career after her marriage to P'an Yu-sheng (Eugene Penn) in 1936 but returned to the screen after his death in 1958. Little […]

Wan Chia-pao (1910-), known as Ts'ao Yü, playwright whose best-known work was Lei-yü [thunderstorm]. After 1949 he devoted himself to cultural activities in the People's Republic of China. Wan joined the Chinese Communist party in 1957. Born in Ch'ienchiang, Hupeh, Ts'ao Yü came from a well-to-do family. He attended the Nankai Middle School in Tientsin, […]