Liu Housheng

Liu Housheng (; January 1921 – 14 May 2019) was a Chinese theatre director, critic, scholar, and playwright. As Vice President of the China Theatre Association, he co-founded the Plum Blossom Award in 1983. He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the China Theater Awards in 2009.

Biography Liu was born in Beijing in January 1921 and moved to Shanghai in 1931. He graduated from the National Theatre Academy (国立戏剧专科学校) in Nanjing.

Starting in the 1940s, Liu wrote many plays and published hundreds of articles on theatre research and criticism.

He served as an advisor to the adaptation of The Palace of Eternal Life to Kunqu opera. He also advised in the composition of the Peking opera Cao Cao and Yang Xiu and the Huai opera The Golden Dragon and the Mayfly. It is considered the highest award for Chinese opera.

In 2009, Liu received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the China Theater Awards.

Personal life Liu was married to Fu Huizhen (傅惠珍). In 2010, the couple donated their collection of several thousand books to the China Theatre Association library, including a precious set of The Collected Works of Lu Xun, which Liu collected in the 1940s directly from Lu Xun's widow Xu Guangping. In 2011, the couple donated their lifetime savings of 500,000 yuan to the China Theatre Association.

Liu died on 14 May 2019 at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, at the age of 98.