''Sunrise'' () is a 1936 Chinese-language play by

Cao Yu Cao Yu (, September 24, 1910 – December 13, 1996) was a Chinese playwright, often regarded as one of China's most important playwrights of the 20th century. His best-known works are ''Thunderstorm'' (1933), ''Sunrise'' (1936) and ''Peking Man' ...

.The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama - Volume 1 - Page 223 0231144229 Gabrielle H. Cody, Evert Sprinchorn - 2007 "Two years later, another play, Sunrise (Richu), came out that, together with Thunderstorm, has made him the most prominent playwright in modern ... Cao Yu's daughter

Wan Fang Wan Fang (, born 1952 in Beijing) is a Chinese playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. She was awarded the Lao She Literary Award in 2014. Her father was Cao Yu (playwright), Cao Yu (1910—1996), one of China's best-known playwrights. Works *'' ...

adapted the play into a libretto for the opera ''

Sunrise Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning, at the start of the Sun path. The term can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon. Terminology Although the S ...

'' by Jin Xiang in 2015.

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1936 plays Chinese Republican era plays Plays by Cao Yu Plays set in the Republic of China (1912–1949) Chinese plays adapted into films Plays adapted into operas {{1930s-play-stub