Cao Chan

Cao Chan, director, composer, lyricist, screenwriter, arranger, producer. English name: Karmia ChanCao, graduated from Stanford University in the United States in 2012, majoring in English literary creation. During college, he directed the musical "The Pawnshop of Time", the plays "Night", "Forgetting Tiburon", and the rock musical "Abraham and the Fire of Friendship". Currently writing and directing the film version of the musical "Tsangyang Gyatso" in China.

Chinese name: Cao Chan

Foreign name: Karmia

Occupation: Director

Graduation school: Stanford University, English Literature Creation Major

Main achievements: Screenwriting and directing the film version of the musical "Tsangyang Gyatso"

Representative work: "Time Pawnshop"

Education experience

Graduated in June 2012, Bachelor of English Literature (Literary Creation) from Stanford University

2007 International Baccalaureate University Preparatory Course at Beijing World Youth International School

Work Experience

2006-2007, part-time staff at Foreign Language Publishing House

2008, entertainment and culture columnist for "Campus Literature"

2007-2008, contributor for "Stanford Daily"< /p>

In 2008, he was the official professional translator for the U.S. beach volleyball team at the Beijing Olympics

From 2009 to 2010, he served as East Asia Affairs Editor of Stanford Journals

In 2009, he studied ethnic anthropology at Stanford University Researcher at the Institute of Diversified Arts of the Center

Artistic Creation

In 2007, the Chinese-English bilingual poetry collection "Taichu" was published by Foreign Languages ??Publishing House

First published in April 2009 The play "Forgetting Tiburon" was performed in San Francisco. This play was created, written and directed by Cao Chan.

In May 2010, the rock musical "Abraham and the Fire of Friendship", written and directed by Cao Chan, was performed in San Francisco. All the music in the play was composed by Cao Chan.

In November 2010, the musical "Time Pawnshop", written, composed, and directed by Cao Chan, was performed in San Francisco, and the tickets were sold out the day before the performance.

Invited by the Korea International Music Festival, "Time Pawn Shop" was performed in the summer of 2011 and began a global tour, visiting Daegu, Macau, Beijing, Vancouver and New York.

Awards and Honors

In 2010, he was awarded the title of "The Most Influential College Student in the United States" by Mochi Magazine

Won the Urmy/Hardy Poetry Award in 2010

Received the Stanford Asian American Performing Arts Achievement Award in 2011

Participated in events

2010-2011, senior member of the Haas Public Service and Leadership Program

2009-2010, Fellow of "Religious Dialogue"

2010-2011, President of OceanicTongues, Stanford Asian American Writers Association

2009-2011, Asian American Member of the Board of Directors of the Human Drama Organization

Family Relations

Cao Chan’s father, Cao Yongzheng, was born in Qingdao, Shandong in 1959. His original name was Cao Zengyu. He later went to the south of the Junggar Basin with his father’s Xinjiang Construction Corps. When I was a child, I relied on my father's meager income from the 125th Regiment to live in the Tatar Temple.

After graduating from the Department of Political Science of Xinjiang University in 1982, Cao Yongzheng successively served as a party school teacher, publisher editor, and historian. Later, with his "special powers", he became a psychological consultant at the Xinjiang Transcendent Medical Research Institute The "psychiatrist" of the outpatient department has also become a guest of many celebrities and high-ranking officials in Xinjiang, ranking first among the "Three Immortals of Xinjiang".

After the "Qigong craze" dissipated in the late 1990s, Cao Yongzheng turned his attention to developing relationships with high-end people in the political, business and entertainment circles, and formed deep personal relationships with many senior officials in the political, legal and petroleum systems. In the celebrity circle he carefully maintained, Cao Yongzheng was respected as the "National Master".

The chief reporter of "People's Daily" Lai Renqiong wrote an article "The Strange Man Cao Yongzheng" (collected in Lai's "The Past Is Like a Tide", 1998), describing his miraculous deeds: he has special perception ability, and can detect a mysterious person. Using a person's photo, a business card, or something that a person often uses, one can perceive the person's past, present, and future within a few seconds or tens of seconds; many difficult diseases that large hospitals are unable to deal with can be treated by them. Diseases can be cured at the drop of a hat; he is also a professional writer, calligrapher, painter, psychiatrist, Feng Shui master, and entrepreneur

The book states that when he was in the third grade of elementary school, Cao Yongzheng showed special sensory abilities. He once cured a patient with spinal curvature by cutting down a mulberry tree with crooked branches; he once predicted which city would win the bid to host the 1993 Olympic Games a year in advance; and through the name of a rich man on a computer notepad, Cao Yongzheng even predicted that the rich man would have a heart problem within 7 days - and it came true immediately. The rich man was very grateful and helped Cao Yongzheng establish the "World Celebrity Rehabilitation Consulting Club" in Hong Kong in 1997. The membership fee was US$800,000, and its members were "Foreign presidents, secretaries of state, great entrepreneurs and great artists."

In 1992, Cao Yongzheng’s wife Wang Wenqin was transferred to the Overseas Center Program Department of CCTV as a editor and director. Cao Yongzheng claimed to be a "CCTV special writer". The couple left CCTV around 1996 and 1997. Became a Canadian citizen.

In 2005, Cao Yongzheng spent more than 100 million to buy No. 60, former Machang Hutong, in Beijing as the headquarters of Beijing Times Investment Co., Ltd. he founded.

This is an elegant courtyard hidden in the depths of Houhai. From the outside, it looks like just two ordinary four-story buildings, but when you walk upstairs, you will know that there is a whole other world. There are dozens of guest rooms on the third and fourth floors of Building 1. The decoration level is more luxurious than that of a five-star hotel. The waiters are all uniformed and well-trained. This is where Cao Yongzheng receives all kinds of guests - those who come to his door. There are people seeking medical advice, officials of all kinds, and people who want to contact officials.

According to insiders in Beijing Times, in 2011 alone, four provincial and ministerial officials visited No. 60 Qianmachang Hutong. Five or six years ago, they also received an old man with a greater origin. "As soon as the old man came over, Cao Yongzheng helped him massage." This former subordinate of Cao Yongzheng said that Cao Yongzheng was very knowledgeable about traditional Chinese massage. As for "fortune telling", "He has not easily told fortunes in recent years, at least most people can't help. He will not even personally receive cadres below the rank of cadres."

Along with the busy traffic in No. 60 Courtyard of Qianmachang Hutong, almost without outsiders noticing, Cao Yongzheng built a huge and secretive business empire relying on political and business connections, completing the transformation from a person with special functions Transformed into a super rich man, he has been involved in petroleum, real estate, film and television, and even agriculture in Beijing, Sichuan, and Xinjiang. His property is scattered and secretive. "Boss Cao is especially familiar with Sichuan officials. Judging from bank records, if his wealth were made public, he would definitely be at the top of the Forbes rich list." said the above-mentioned insider.

Cao Yongzheng’s daughter, Cao Chan, is a musical director. In 2011, she directed the musical "Time Pawnshop" on its national tour, one of which was in Chengdu. Li Chuncheng, then member of the Standing Committee of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee, even went to the Chengdu Art Center to support him.