Bai Hua, Chinese novelist, playwright and poet, Died at 88

Bai Hua was born Chen Youhua on November 20, 1930, in Xinyang, Henan and died on January 15, 2019.

He was a Chinese novelist, playwright and poet.

Bai earned national fame for his plays based on uncompromising historical criticism.

Hua began publishing poems at the age of fifteen under his current name.
Most them featuring in the Southern Henan Daily.

Hua worked in a Shanghai film studio in the early 1960s, and produced several influential dramas and films in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Bitter Love his book was turned in a flim called The Sun and the People in 1980.

Hua resided in retirement in Shanghai with his wife.

Hua most recent poem was published in 2009.

Bai Hua passed away at 88 years old.