Xu Zhimo

Hsu Chih-mo (徐志摩, pinyin: X? Zh?m?) (January 15, 1897-November 19, 1931) was a twentieth-century Chinese poet.

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He was born in Xiashi, in Zhejiang province, and died in Ji'nan in the Shandong provence. In 1918, after studying at Peking University (now a.k.a. Beijing University) he traveled to the United States to study Economics and Political Science. Finding the states "intolerable", he, in 1920 went to study at Cambridge University where he fell in love with English romantic poetry like that of Keats and Shelley. In 1922 he went back to China and became a leader of the modern poetry movement. When the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore visited China, he played the part of oral interpreter. His literary ideology was mostly pro-western, and pro-vernacular. He was one of the first Chinese writers to successfully naturalize Western romantic forms into modern Chinese poetry. He worked as an editor and professor at several schools before dying in a plane crash on November 19, 1931 in Ji'nan, Shandong while flying from Nanjing to {Beijing]]. He left behind four collections of verse and several volumes of translations from various languages.

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