Cao Yu's Plays and the Awakening of the Sense of Chinese Drama

What makes a drama and how can we build a sense of drama with a modern Western perspective? Before 1930,Chinese academics and the performing arts circles had failed to answer these questions.When translating the play Swift,Cao Yu changed this drama's composition,action,character,dialogue,sentiment and other aspects.He displayed an extremely keen sense of uniqueness.Thanks to various reasons,Cao Yu formed his sense of drama and his drama awareness had already been very mature when he wrote The Thunderstorm.Even today,no dramatist in China can match him.What a dramatist writes is not so important as the sense which leads to the writing.Modern drama has been in China for 100 years,but today the sense of drama is still an important lesson we should take.