Jiefang Daily called Xie Yaohuan a "political manifesto". The play was condemned for, among other things, of "being a wholesale inheritance of China's theatrical legacy and promoting traditional plays", "disparaging revolutionary modern plays" and "promoting bourgeois class liberalism and obfuscating the direction for the workers, peasants and soldiers". Tian was subsequently persecuted by the Gang of Four and incarcerated as a "counterrevolutionary" in a prison which was run personally by Kang Sheng, and died there in 1968. After the end of the Cultural Revolution, he and Xie Yaohuan were “rehabilitated posthumously” (considered to be rehabilitated after death) in 1979. Works Although a proponent of western style theater (話劇 huàjù) in China, Tian also produced a number of works with historical themes. Major plays Kafeidian Yi Ye (A Night in the Coffee Shop) 1922 Wufan Zhiqian (Before Lunch) 1922 Huo Hu Zhi Ye (A Night of Capturing the Tiger) 1924 Suzhou Ye Hua (Night Talk of Suzhou) 1928 Hu Shang de Beiju (A Tragedy of the Lake) 1928 Ming You Zhi Si (Death of a Noted Actor) 1929 Nan Gui 1929 Mei Yu (Plum Rains) 1932 Yueguang Qu (Moonlight Melody) 1932 Luan Zhong 1932 Yangzi Jiang de Bao Feng Yu (Storm on the Yangtze) 1935 Hui Chun Zhi Qu (Spring Melody) 1935 Hong Shui (Flood) 1935 Lugou Qiao (Lugou Bridge) 1937 Han Jiang Yu Ge (Fisherman's Song of the Han River) 1939 Qiu Sheng Fu 1942 Liren Xing (Women Side by Side) Guan Hanqing 1958 Xiè Yáohuán () 1961 Librettos Baishe Zhuan (The White Snake) (1958) Film scripts Go to the People 到民间去 (Dao minjian qu) (1927) (unfinished) Three Modern Women (1932) Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm (1935) Women Side by Side (1949) A Test of Love (1958) Song lyrics "March of the Volunteers" (1935) "The Wandering Songstress" (1937) Translations Salomé (Oscar Wilde) (1921) In popular culture Tian Han was the prototype for the figure of "Kuang Wentao" (played by Bo Gao) in the 1959 biopic Nie Er, which retold the story of the composition of the Chinese National Anthem on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. For the 50th anniversary in 1999, he was represented directly in the film The National Anthem, played by He Zhengjun. His story was also told in The National Anthem, a 27-episode television series, and in the play Torrent (, Kuángliú), produced in Beijing in the year 2000.