Sha Yexin

Sha Yexin (Chinese: 沙叶新; 13 July 1939 in Nanjing – 26 July 2018) was a Chinese playwright and short story writer.

Sha finished his first one-act play, Yi fen qian 《一分钱》 (One Cent), in 1965. Later works include his plays Haohao xuexi 《好好学习》 (Diligent study); Yesu, Kongzi, Pitoushi Lienong 耶稣·孔子·披头士列侬 (Jesus, Confucius and Beatles‘ Lennon); Makesi mishi 《马克思秘史》 (Marx's Secret History); Xunzhao nanzihan 《寻找男子汉》 (Looking for a Real Man) and his short story titled Wu biaoti de duihua 《无标题对话》 (Untitled dialogue). His play The Impostor 《假如我是真的》 (If I Were for Real) was written together with fellow playwrights Li Shoucheng and Yao Mingde and later made into a movie directed by Wang Tong.^{[citation needed]}

Sha became head of the Shanghai People's Art Theatre in 1985.

Sha met with German chancellor Angela Merkel in 2007, regarding freedom of the press issues in China.^[1]

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