Zhao was born in
Qingzhou,
Shandong in 1889. In 1914, he entered the English Department of
Peking University. In 1919, he entered
Columbia University to study literature and continued to the graduate school there to specialize in drama. During the
May Thirtieth Movement in 1925, he returned to China at the same time as
Wen Yiduo,
Yu Shangyuan and
Liang Shiqiu. Zhao served as a professor and head of the Department of Drama at Beijing Art College. He also lectured drama theory courses at Peking University. In 1958, when Shandong University moved from
Qingdao to
Jinan, he stayed in Qingdao and became a professor of foreign languages at Shandong Ocean College (present-day
Ocean University of China). In 1968, Zhao committed suicide by jumping into the ocean. == References ==